Grande Chartreuse

Grande Chartreuse is placed in a remote mountain valley.

The Grande Chartreuse is the head monastery of the Carthusian order. It is located in the Chartreuse Mountains, to the north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in the Isère département of France. Originally, the house belonged to the see of Grenoble, and Saint Hugh gave it to Saint Bruno and his followers in 1084. With that house, Bruno founded the Carthusian Order. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1726x1134, 602 KB) Beschreibung Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Grande Chartreuse ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1726x1134, 602 KB) Beschreibung Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Grande Chartreuse ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 1005 KB)La Grande Chartreuse, France This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its creator, Arnejohs. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 1005 KB)La Grande Chartreuse, France This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its creator, Arnejohs. ... Monastery of St. ... Coat of arms of the Carthusian order Monasterio de la Cartuja, a former Carthusian monastery in Seville The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St. ... A religious order is an organization of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with religious devotion. ... DEM of the Chartreuse massif The Chartreuse Mountains (Massif de la Chartreuse) is a mountain range in eastern France, stretching to the north from the city of Grenoble to the Lac du Bourget. ... Grenoble (Arpitan: Grasanòbol) is a city and commune in south-east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac into the Isère River. ... The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse is a commune of the Isère département, in France. ... Isère is a département in the east of France named after the Isère River. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ... The diocese of the bishopric of Grenoble, in south-eastern France, comprises the Department of Isère and the former Canton of Villeurbanne (Rhône). ... Saint Hugh of Grenoble (1052 - 1132) is a Christian saint who was bishop of Grenoble. ... Saint Bruno (Cologne, c. ... Events Saint Bruno founds the Carthusian Order of monks Kyanzittha begins his reign in Myanmar. ...

Close to it stands a museum of the Carthusian order and the lives of its monks and nuns. The order is supported by the sales of Chartreuse (liqueur). The Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ... St. ... For other uses, see Nun (disambiguation). ... Bottle of Green Chartreuse Chartreuse is a French liqueur composed of distilled wine alcohol flavored with 130 herbal extracts. ...

Famously, English poet Matthew Arnold wrote one of his finest poems, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse while staying at the monastery briefly. The quiet, serenity, and piety of the place contrasted with what he saw as the violent emerging age of machinery, and the monastic calm became, for him, the susurrations of a dying world. The Grand Chartreuse was also written of in the 1850 revision of William Wordsworth's The Prelude, Book VI and John Ruskin's Praeterita. Motto  2(French) God and my right Anthem God Save the Queen 3 United Kingdom() – on the European continent() – in the European Union() Capital London Largest conurbation (population) Greater London Urban Area Official languages English (de facto)4 Government  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Gordon Brown Formation  -  Acts of... Matthew Arnold Caricature from Punch, 1881: Admit that Homer sometimes nods, That poets do write trash, Our Bard has written Balder Dead, And also Balder-dash Family tree Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. ... William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. ... The Prelude is an autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. ... Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845, scanned from print made circa 1895. ...

It was closed in 1903 by the French state^[1], but the monks returned in 1940.^[2]

A documentary about the monastery, Into Great Silence, was made in 2004, to great acclaim in the film festival circuit. The film Into Great Silence (Die Große Stille) directed by Philip Groening, is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in a remote corner of the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). ...

References

1. ^ "The monastery, with a small portion of the surrounding pastures, was rented from the State till, in accordance with the Association Laws of 1901, the last monks were expelled by two squadrons of dragoons on the 19th of April, 1903." La Grande Chartreuse. Catholic Encyclopedia.
2. ^ "Meanwhile the Holy See's endorsement of the Petain regime in France brought it minor benefits, such as the Carthusians' return to their Alpine eyrie, the Grande Chartreuse."Church & Democracy. Time Magazine (Monday, Aug. 19, 1940).

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