Moutiers-Saint-Jean Abbey
Moutiers-Saint-Jean Abbey (from Latin monasterium sancti Johannis, Template:Lang-fr, 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
- ^ a b Fox 2014, pp. 97–98.
- ^ Lesne 1920.
- ^ Base Mérimée: PA00112565, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
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.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Fox, Yaniv (2014). Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul: Columbanian Monasticism and the Frankish Elites. Cambridge University Press.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - 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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