Abbey of Santa Maria a Mare

Coordinates: 42°07′17″N 15°30′18″E / 42.1215°N 15.5049°E / 42.1215; 15.5049
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The ruins of the monastery dominate the island of San Nicola. They form a monument to the Adriatic Early Romanesque style, which integrated the Western European tradition with those of Byzantium and the Mediterranean.[1]

The Abbey of Santa Maria a Mare was a

Gargano Peninsula
in Italy from the 9th century until 1782.

According to Cardinal

Saracens sacked Monte Cassino and the monks went into exile for over half a century. This period must have severed relations between it and its provostries, including Tremiti.[2]

Originally the abbey was dedicated to

Virgin Mary developed gradually in the early 11th century. The earliest document referring to the abbey on San Nicola is a record of a land-grant of Bishop Landenulf of Lucera dated to November 1005. In it the abbey is called the "monastery of the Blessed James the Apostle which is in Tremiti island".[a] Mary was associated with the abbey for the first time in a document of 1014, where it is called the "church of Saint Mary and Saint James the Apostle which are [sic] constructed in the place that is called Tremiti".[b] This dual association with James and Mary is a constant in the documentation from 1026[c] until 1059, although reference to James was dropped in a charter dated to 1023.[d] After 1059 there is no further reference to Saint James.[2]

Courtyard of the ruined monastery

Abbot

Lothair II in 1137 did likewise.[2]

By the thirteenth century, the abbey of Santa Maria a Mare was in decline. In 1237 it was granted to the

royal domain in 1737 and the monastery was suppressed by royal decree in 1782. The monastic archives were transferred to the Archivio Grande in Naples. They were lost to fire in 1943 during World War II. The medieval cartulary, however, survives and was published in 1960.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ monasterium Beati Iacobi apostoli qui est in Tremiti insula
  2. ^ ecclesia S. Mariae et S. Iacobi apostoli que constructe sunt in loco qui Tremiti vocatur
  3. ^ monasterium Beate Dei genitricis et virginis Mariae et S. Iacobi apostoli quod situm est in insula que dicitur Tremiti: "monastery of the Blessed Mother of God and Virgin Mary and Saint James the Apostle that is situated in the island that is called Tremiti"
  4. ^ cenobium Beate Marie in insula quae Tremiti dicitur: "monastery of the Blessed Mary in the island that is called Tremiti"

References

  1. ^ Gigliozzi, Maria Teresa. "The Tremiti Abbey in the Adriatic Early Romanesque context. An example of integration in a border land, between the West and the Mediterranean area". Il Capitale Culturale. 16.
  2. ^ a b c d Herbert Bloch, Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages, Vol. 1 (Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 689–94. For a list of abbots and priors, see Armando Petrucci, Codice diplomatico del monastero benedettino di S. Maria di Tremiti, 1005–1237, 3 vols. (Rome, 1960), pp. CXXXVIII–CXLIV.

42°07′17″N 15°30′18″E / 42.1215°N 15.5049°E / 42.1215; 15.5049

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