Moutier-Saint-Jean de Réôme

Portal from Moutier-Saint-Jean de Réôme, now in The Cloisters in New York

Moutier-Saint-Jean de Réôme (from Latin monasterium sancti Johannis) was a monastery located in what is now the village of Moutiers-Saint-Jean (named after the monastery).

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]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fox 2014, pp. 97–98.
  2. ↑ Lesne 1920.

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.

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

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