Mount-Of-Cast:
The Saint-Marie Abbey of the Mount
An Abbey which will be the ornament and the pride of our Flandres catholics.
Built at the XIXÈME century, the abbey Sainte Marie of the Mount
of Cats whose construction commençée in 1891 lasted 5
years It obeys, in the provision of the buildings, with the spirit of
the architects cistercians of XIIème siècle.Église,
chapter, refectory, kitchens are organized around a cloister, rectangular
garden with the centre of which throne, since 1950, the statue
of Joseph.Surmontée Saint of a small whitewood bell-tower, the
flanked abbey church of two high towers is avoided in the tympanum of
the escutcheon of the abbey: a crowned virgin requests on the point
of the pinion. The interior of the abbey church to the arcs and the
vaults balanced invites by its dépouillement with meditation.
The stained glasses, spans of light, flood this space at the rate/rhythm
of the journée and create an atmosphere of serenity. The
bottom of the apse with six sides is perçé of seven arcades
opening on seven vaults, intended for the particular prayer of the moines.Dans
the chapter, rectangular room with vôutes flattened, each repercussion
of arc beam is accompanied by an escutcheon decorated with the weapons
with Cîteaux, pontiguy or Clairvaux... For the cloister, with
the long bored bay corridor, the whiteness of the stones of creil underlines
the architectonic reasons for the red brown whole of masonry. Observing
the rêgle of Saint-Benoît, the monks of the abbey live in
autarky. Therefore meet-you one, intallées in the enclosure of
the fence, cheese dairy, brewery, forging mill and firm... Balance cistercian
spirit and Style Néo-Gothic However, in spite of the respect
of the model original cistercian, the Sainte-Marie abbey of Mont
borrows all the artifices of the Gothic style of XIIIème and
XIVème centuries. The monastery of restored Antonins is not enough
any more to accomodate the recruits. The monastic community decides
to set up a new abbey and requests pour this company the contest
of the architect Paul Destombes.
Since XIXème century, the products of the abbey of the Mount of Cats draw their savour and them gôut in the Mounts of Flandres. Today, 27 farmers perpetuate cette tradition and deliver the milk of their herd to the cheese dairy of the abbey. On the soft slopes of the Mounts of Flanders, " Holstein Friesian " and the " Red Flemish " graze the grass grasse.Il peacefully is necessary ten liters of milk to work out 1 kg of fromage Mount of Cats. It is with the good milk believed of the Mounts of Flanders that the monks of the abbey of the Mount of Cats manufacture, since 1870, delicious cheeses and butter. Regional cheese-making specialities, they offer all the taste and the flavour of a great tradition. Knowledge-To make of Boers of Flandres These milch cows, large producing, require a constant attention; the farmer according to a daily rite, the feature mechanically, at precise hours, twice by day, evening and morning. A knowledge of each animal appears essential because the vache in security, gives up the invaluable liquid one more easily. The fear the disease influential on the milk yield of the animal:aussi it is choyé.Aprés each operation, the hands are washed, the cleaned hardware... Thus draft carry out-you it under excellent conditions. To keep the high nutritional values of milk, handling too nombreuses is avoided: the opalescent white liquid is thus preserved safe from the air, in a tank réfrigéré before the passage of the tanker.
A strict selection and Fastidious regular controls on the quality of their cheeses and butter, the Trappists control the production of milks and realize in a regular way of the taking away on the traites.Un laboratory approved and independent analyzes the composition of milks, checks their nutritional and bacteriological characteristics. This strict selection also makes it possible to remunerate the farmer according to criteria's accepted in Joint Committee interdépartementale of the producers and milk transformers. The success of the products of the abbey of the Mount of Cats contributes to recall that the love du travail well done so expensive to the heart of people of North east a whole art of living. The Abbey opened there is four years an appendix: the Center Charles Grimminck. The Center presents a audio-visual space making it possible to discover the life of the monks, a room presenting of the expositions in cultural and religious matter, a shop proposing of the products emanating of many monasteries, a point of tousitic information. Opened all the year. Information to the 03 28 42 52 50.
