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400 ANOS DO MOSTEIRO DE SÃO BENTO - SÃO PAULO

 

O Mosteiro de São Bento é a instituição mais antiga de São Paulo, que nunca mudou de lugar”. Durante os quatro séculos de sua existência, o Mosteiro de São Bento de São Paulo passou por várias transformações; desde a humilde Ermida, fundada pelo beneditino Frei Mauro Teixeira até o monumento arquitetônico, em estilo normando bizantino, levantado pelo dinámico Abade Dom Miguel Kruse, e inaugurado, em 1922, pelo Cardeal Lega­do Papal. Dom Aidano Gasquet, O.S.B.

Nestes quatro séculos, houve 66 Abades, sendo o primeiro, eleito em Portugal, em 1635, Frei Alvaro de Hinojosa y Carvajal e o atual, Dom Isidoro Oliveira Preto, eleito em 1989.

Desde a sua fundação, em 1598, o Mosteiro de São Bento de São Paulo, assim como os outros Mosteiros beneditinos do Brasil, dependiam da ‘Congregação Beneditina de Portugal”, fundada em 1566, pela bula do Papa Pio V. A Congregação Beneditina brasileira foi cria­da, em 1827, pela bula papal de Leão XII.

A Comunidade do Mosteiro paulistano não era das maiores da Congregação Beneditina. Havendo, em 1855, a proibição governamental de receber noviços, a Comuni­dade ficou reduzida a apenas um monge, o Abade Frei Pedro da Ascensão Moreira, que faleceu no começo do século, em 15 de julho. Atualmente, na gestão de Dom Isidoro Oliveira Preto, o sexagésimo sexto Abade, a con­tar do primeiro, em 1635, o Mosteiro conta com cerca de 40 monges, entre padres e estudantes.

Pela história quatrocentista do Mosteiro de São Bento de São Paulo passaram muitas personagens ilustres como Fernão Dias Paes Leme, que reconstruiu o templo anterior ao atual, e está enterrado na Basílica; também Frei Gaspar da Madre de Deus, o Historiador das Primeiras Eras Paulistas”, conforme placa no Instituto Histórico. Todos eles, monges e leigos beneméritos fize­ram a história do Mosteiro de São Bento de São Paulo.

 

DOM MARTINHO JOHNSON Monge Beneditino Membro do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de São Paulo e Bibliotecário do Mosteiro de São Bento

 

400 YEARS OF SAINT BENEDICT MONASTERY -SÃO PAULO

 The Saint Benedict Monastery is the oldest institution in São Paulo, ‘which has not moved”. in its four-century existence, the Saint Benedict Monastery in São Paulo has undergone several transformations though; since the humble Hermitage, founded by Benedictine Friar Mauro Teixeira to the architectonic monument, in Norman-Byzan­tine style, built by the dynamic Abbot Don Miguel Kruse, and inaugurated in 1922 by Legate Cardinal Don Aidano Gasquet S.B.O.

In these four centuries, there were 66 Abbots, Friar Álvaro de Hinojosa y Carvajal was the first one, who was elected in Portugal in 1635, and the current one is Don Isidoro Oliveira Preto, who was elected in 1989.

Ever since its foundation, in 1598, the Saint Benedict Monastery in São Paulo, as well as other Benedictine Monasteries in Brazil, depended on the Benedictine Con­gregation of Portugal”, which was founded in 1566, through Papal bull by Pope Pius V. The Brazilian Bene­dictine Congregation was created in 1827, through Leo XII’s Papal bull.

The Monastery’s Community in São Paulo was not one of the largest in the Benedictine Congregation. ln 1855, with the governmental prohibition to novice acceptance, the Community was reduced to just a monk, Abbot Friar Pedro da Ascensão Moreira, who died at the beginning of this century, on July 15th. At the present, in Don Isidoro Oliveira Preto’s term as the sixtieth sixth Abbot since the first to be appointed, in 1635, the Monastery shelters around 40 monks, both Fathers and students.

Several outstanding characters have passed by the four-hundred-year history of the Saint Benedict Monastery in São Paulo, such as Fernão Dias Paes Leme, who reconstructed the temple prior to the current one, and is presently buried in the Basilica; also Friar Gaspar da Madre de Deus, “The Historian of the First Years of São Paulo”, according to a plate placed at the Historic Institute. AlI of them, monks and benefactor laymen have made the history of Saint Benedict Monastery in São Paulo.

 

DON MARTINHO JOHNSON Benedictine Monk

Member of the São Paulo Historic and Geographic Insti­tute and Saint Benedict Monastery Librarian

 


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