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Morimondo Abbey ((イタリア語:Abbazia di Morimondo)) is a former Cistercian monastery founded in 1134 as a daughter house of Morimond Abbey near Dijon, from which it took its name (meaning "die to the world"). Its first location was near the small village of Coronate, but the community moved after two years to a site a few miles south of Abbiategrasso in the Province of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. The surviving structure is Romanesque and Gothic. ==History== Soon after its foundation the abbey acquired patrons and postulants from all social classes. Even before the construction of the church, the monks founded two further communities: in Acquafredda near Como (1143) and in Casalvolone near Novara (1169). At its peak the abbey had an active scriptorium and large agricultural holdings. The community numbered 50 choir monks (monks, priests who worked in the scriptorium) and 200 conversi (lay brothers dedicated to the management of the productive activities of the monastery and relations with the outside world). Wars disrupted the success of the abbey. Militants from both Pavia and Milan often looted the area. Frederick Barbarossa and his troops looted Morimondo in 1161. In December 1237 the monastery was assaulted by Pavian troops, who killed many of the monks. In 1450, Cardinal Giovanni Visconti, Archbishop of Milan, became Commander and Abbot of Morimondo. He was followed by Cardinal Branda Castiglioni, a known humanist; and sometime thereafter by a son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici (Commander during 1487-1501). He had six monks from the Abbey of Settimo Fiorentino move to Morimondo to restore the regularity of monastic life.〔(Official website ).〕 This stability led to reconstruction of the cloister around the year 1500, the reconstruction of the portal of the sacristy, and painting of the fresco of the "Madonna and Child" (1515) attributed to Bernardino Luini, and finally the carved wooden choir of 1522. In 1564, Archbishop Charles Borromeo stripped the Abbey of its land-holdings, in order to give financial aid to the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan. In the 17th century Abbot Antonio Libanorio (1648-1652) was able to effect a revival of the monastic community. During the 18th century, palaces were built at the north and west borders of the cloister. The abbey was suppressed by Napoleonic rule in 1798. Priests at the former monastic church continued to minister to the parish through the 19th and 20th centuries. However, in 1941 the archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Ildefonso Schuster, bemoaning the abandoned convent, contacted Trappist monks from Tre Fontane Abbey in Rome and later, in 1950, the Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary to settle in the monastery. Since 1991, the Congregation of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, has served the local parish.〔(Visita Milano ) website.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morimondo Abbey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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