Moutiers-Saint-Jean Abbey

Portal from Moutiers-Saint-Jean, now in The Cloisters in New York

Moutiers-Saint-Jean Abbey (from Latin monasterium sancti Johannis, French: Abbaye de Moutiers-Saint-Jean, also Abbaye Saint-Jean-de-Réome) was a monastery located in what is now the village of Moutiers-Saint-Jean (named after the monastery) in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. It is in Burgundy, near Dijon.

The monastery was founded by an Egyptian monk named John around 450. During the abbacy of Chunna (Hunnanus), a monk from Remiremont, the original monastic rule, that of the ancient saint Macarius of Alexandria, was replaced by that of Luxeuil, founded by the Irish missionary Columbanus.[1] When Jonas of Bobbio stayed at the monastery in 659, during Chunna's abbacy, he was compelled by the monks to write a biography of their founder. The result was the Vita Iohannis.[1]

In 816–17, Saint-Jean was reformed according to the synods of Aachen. According to the record of monasteries made around that time, it owed the Carolingian state annually both a monetary gift (dona) and a military contribution (militia).[2]

The remains of the abbey (the 14th-century main gate, the facades of two 17th-century buildings, the grounds of the abbey and the abbey church) are protected by the French government.[3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Fox 2014, pp. 97–98.
  2. ↑ Lesne 1920.
  3. ↑ Mérimée PA00112565, Ministère français de la Culture. (fr)

Sources

  • Diem, Albrecht (2008). "The Rule of an Iro-Egyptian Monk in Gaul: Jonas of Bobbio's Vita Iohannis and the Construction of Monastic Identity". Revue Mabillon. 80: 5–50. 
  • Fox, Yaniv (2014). Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul: Columbanian Monasticism and the Frankish Elites. Cambridge University Press. 
  • Lesne, Émile (1920). "Les ordonnances monastiques de Louis le Pieux et la Notitia de servitio monasteriorum". Revue d'histoire de l'église de France. 6: 161–75, 321–38 and 449–93. 

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Coordinates: 47°33′36″N 4°13′21″E / 47.5601°N 4.2226°E / 47.5601; 4.2226

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