Florennes Abbey

Coordinates: 50°15′10″N 4°35′55″E / 50.25278°N 4.59861°E / 50.25278; 4.59861
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Musée du Cinquantenaire
, Brussels

Florennes Abbey (

province of Namur, Wallonia, Belgium
. The abbey was founded in the 11th century, but has left very few visible remains.

History

A community of

Rule of St. Benedict and became a Benedictine monastery; 1027 is considered its year of foundation.[2]

The abbey was important in the region. It was particularly associated with the de Rumigny family. It was dissolved during the French Revolution, and afterwards entirely demolished.[2]

Present day

Structures

On the site, only the former abbey farm remains, on the outskirts of Florennes on the road leading to Morialmé, with a tower characteristic of the 17th century (perhaps originally a dovecote).[3]

Three

Saint Michael, are now at Maredsous Abbey.[4]

Artworks

The abbey

Musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.[5]

Petschau Castle
(Czech Republic)

The

Alfred, duc de Beaufort-Spontin, and some decades later moved to Petschau Castle (now Bečov nad Teplou in the present Czech Republic), one of the family's residences. When the castle was evacuated during World War II, the reliquary was buried for safe-keeping under the floor of the chapel, and forgotten. It was rediscovered in 1985, and remains in the hands of the Czech government.[6]

References

  1. ^ the abbey was dedicated to Saint John the Baptist but Saint Maurus was also venerated there.
  2. ^ a b Dierkens, Abbayes et chapitres entre Sambre et Meuse
  3. ^ "La ferme de l'Abbaye" (in French). entre-sambre-et-meuse.be. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  4. ^ Gérard van Caloen: Les basreliefs de Maredsous provenant de l'abbaye de Florennes, in: Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur, vol. XVI, 1884, pp. 83-93
  5. ISBN 978-2-87130-121-9
    .
  6. ^ "Shrine [of] St Maurus". Zamek-becov.cz. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.

Bibliography

  • Dierkens, Alain, 1984: Abbayes et chapitres entre Sambre et Meuse (VIIe – XIe siècles): Contribution à l'histoire religieuse des campagnes du Haut Moyen Âge (375 p). Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke
    ISBN 3-7995-7314-3 (online edition
    )

External links

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