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Arouca Abbey, the Glossary

32 relations: Abbess, Aedicula, Afonso I of Portugal, Arouca, Portugal, Asturians, Aveiro District, Baroque, Bartholomew the Apostle, Beatification, Benedictines, Bernard of Clairvaux, Braga, Carlo Gimach, Cistercians, Dissolution of the monasteries in Portugal, Double monastery, Liberal Wars, Mafalda of Portugal, Mannerism, Moldes, Papal bull, Parish church, Pedro I of Brazil, Porto metropolitan area, Portuguese real, Reconquista, Roman Catholic Diocese of Aveiro, Rule of Saint Benedict, Saint Peter, Sancho I of Portugal, Suppression of the Society of Jesus, Votive offering.
Buildings and structures in Aveiro District
Christian monasteries in Portugal
Cistercian monasteries in Portugal
National monuments in Aveiro District

Abbess

An abbess (Latin: abbatissa) is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey.

In ancient Roman religion, an aedicula (aediculae) is a small shrine, and in classical architecture refers to a niche covered by a pediment or entablature supported by a pair of columns and typically framing a statue,"aedicula, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, September 2020,.

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Afonso I of Portugal

Afonso IOr also Affonso (Archaic Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonso (Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonsus (Latin version), sometimes rendered in English as Alphonzo or Alphonse, depending on the Spanish or French influence.

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Arouca, Portugal

Arouca is a town and a municipality in the Metropolitan Area of Porto, in the Norte Region of Portugal and in the Aveiro District.

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Asturians

Asturians (asturianos) are a Romance ethnic group with Celtic roots, native to the autonomous community of Asturias, in the North-West of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Aveiro District

Aveiro District (Distrito de Aveiro) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Bartholomew the Apostle

Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, who appears in the Gospel of John (1:45–51; cf.

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Beatification

Beatification (from Latin beatus, "blessed" and facere, "to make") is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name.

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Benedictines

The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. (Bernardus Claraevallensis; 109020 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through the nascent Cistercian Order.

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Braga

Braga (Bracara) is a city and a municipality, capital of the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province.

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Carlo Gimach

Carlo Gimach (2 March 1651 – 31 December 1730) was a Maltese architect, engineer and poet who was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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Dissolution of the monasteries in Portugal

The dissolution of the monasteries in Portugal was a nationalization of the property of male monastic orders effected by a decree of 28 May 1834 enacted by Joaquim António de Aguiar at the conclusion of the Portuguese Civil War.

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Double monastery

A double monastery (also dual monastery or double house) is a monastery combining separate communities of monks and of nuns, joined in one institution to share one church and other facilities.

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Liberal Wars

The Liberal Wars, also known as the War of the Two Brothers (Guerra dos Dois Irmãos), was a war between liberal constitutionalists and conservative traditionalists in Portugal over royal succession that lasted from 1828 to 1834.

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Mafalda of Portugal

Infanta Mafalda of Portugal (also known as Blessed Mafalda, O.Cist. (c. 1195 – 1 May 1256 in Rio Tinto, Gondomar) was a Portuguese infanta (princess), later Queen consort of Castile for a brief period. She was the second youngest daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal and Dulce of Aragon. Married briefly to the ten-year-old Henry I of Castile, she held for a time the title Queen of Castile.

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Mannerism

Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.

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Moldes

Moldes is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions) in the Castropol municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

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Papal bull

A papal bull is a type of public decree, letters patent, or charter issued by a pope of the Catholic Church.

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Parish church

A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish.

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Pedro I of Brazil

Dom Pedro I (12 October 1798 – 24 September 1834) was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil, where he was known as "the Liberator".

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Porto metropolitan area

The Porto Metropolitan Area (Área Metropolitana do Porto; abbreviated as AMP) is a metropolitan area in northern Portugal centered on the City of Porto, Portugal's second largest city.

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Portuguese real

The real (meaning "royal", plural: réis or reais) was the unit of currency of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire from around 1430 until 1911.

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Reconquista

The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for "reconquest") or the reconquest of al-Andalus was the successful series of military campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Aveiro

The Diocese of Aveiro (Dioecesis Aveirensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Portugal.

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Rule of Saint Benedict

The Rule of Saint Benedict (Regula Sancti Benedicti) is a book of precepts written in Latin by St. Benedict of Nursia (c. AD 480–550) for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.

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Saint Peter

Saint Peter (died AD 64–68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church.

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Sancho I of Portugal

Sancho I of Portugal, nicknamed "the Populator" ("o Povoador"), King of Portugal (Coimbra, 11 November 115426 March 1211) was the second but only surviving legitimate son and fifth child of Afonso I of Portugal by his wife, Maud of Savoy.

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Suppression of the Society of Jesus

The suppression of the Society of Jesus was the removal of all members of the Jesuits from most of Western Europe and their respective colonies beginning in 1759 along with the abolition of the order by the Holy See in 1773; the papacy acceded to said anti-Jesuit demands without much resistance.

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Votive offering

A votive offering or votive deposit is one or more objects displayed or deposited, without the intention of recovery or use, in a sacred place for religious purposes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arouca_Abbey

Also known as Monastery of Arouca.