Dom Gerard Calvet OSB, + February 28, 2008
In July 1974, donated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who was not suspended at that time, the first ordinations, which, however, the resistance of the Abbot of Father Gérard out-shouted. He wanted the young convent close. The monks were hoping in vain for help from Rome. From then on, the community was closely related to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X.
In July 1974, donated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who was not suspended at that time, the first ordinations, which, however, the resistance of the Abbot of Father Gérard out-shouted. He wanted the young convent close. The monks were hoping in vain for help from Rome. From then on, the community was closely related to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X.
Soon, the priory was too small, the monks had to sleep in trailers and trailer. Thus, the community bought land in 1977, a southern French Barroux on the slopes of Mount Ventoux and began to build their monastery.
In 1979, a female branch came to the community, as four young women with
the Benedictine nun Mother Elizabeth began to make on the side of the monks "the experience of tradition." The Foundation for today's Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation was laid.
was 1981, the final farewell to Bédoin. Two days before Christmas were all a "bag and baggage" in the guest house of the new monastery, where there was no heating or electricity. The novices had to sleep in the dormitory, the liturgy was celebrated in the recently completed crypt.
created in the coming years, the first monastery building before work started on the construction of the Abbey Church.
by After the illicit ordinations Archbishop Lefebvre on 06/29/1988, Father Gerard turned to find the Holy See, a canonical solution of the disordered situation. On 6/18/1989, announced the Abbot Primate of the Benedictines and later Bishop of Augsburg, Department Viktor Dammerz, in Le Barroux the decree of erection of the monastery as Abbey, a few days before had been signed in Rome. On 02/07/1989 Cardinal Augustin Mayer OSB gave the founders of the monastery the Abtsweihe.
On 02/10/1989, the Feast the Holy Guardian Angel, took place in Cardinal Gagnon Accompanied by the Archbishop of Avignon and fourteen other prelates, the solemn consecration of the church after the old Roman Pontifical.
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