From protest ferment to explosion: episode 2/2 of the Boquen podcast, abbey of “leftists”

In 1969, Bernard Besret had to give up his place to the Hungarian monk Guy Luzsénszky, responsible for restoring order. But the latter supports and continues the work of his predecessor. Until that day in 1976, when the episcopate and the Cistercian order decided to send a commando of three nuns from the Sisters of Bethlehem to re-establish monastic life and stop the collective experience. This time, the hierarchy wants to regain power. The sisters camp in the abbey church. Tensions are rising.

To talk about it

• Bernard Besretformer prior of the abbey between 1964 and 1969.
• Béatrice Lebelhistorian
• Pierre Cardonna, Odile Durand and Dominique Desbois, members of the Boquen cultural association, former members of Boquen Abbey at the time of Bernard Besret and Guy Luzsénszky.

Thanks to the movement Boquen Living memory 70-90 “, has the Boquen cultural associationand to Jean-François Rolin, president of the association.

>> To listenthe podcast Boquen, living memory (1970-1990)produced by the Boquen cultural association.

Bibliography

• Béatrice Lebel, Boquen: Between utopia and revolution, 1965-1976editions of Presses universitaire de Rennes, 2015.
• Guy Luzsénszky, When we have come so far… Comments from a monk in the open aireditions of L'Harmattan, 2001.
• Guy Luzsénszky, Boquen, chronicle of hopeStock editions, 1977 – digital re-edition, 2015.
• Yan Celton, Boquen, a monastic adventure in the 20th century, in The Church and the Bretons: from the Revolution to the 21st centuryPalantines editions, 2008.
• Yvon Tranvouez, Boquen and Landévennec: two destinies, in Catholics in Brittany in the 20th centuryeditions of Presses universitaire de Rennes, 2006.

Generic

A documentary by Yves Deloison, directed by Anne Fleury. Sound recording, Benjamin Reyes and Ludovic Auger. Documentalist Ina, Manuela Dubessy. Coordination, Emmanuel Laurentin and Christine Bernard. Program manager and web edition, Sandrine Chapron.