Ruins of the medieval Landévennec Abbey

Landévennec Abbey (French: Abbaye de Landévennec, Abbaye Saint-Guénolé de Landévennec) is a Benedictine monastery at Landévennec in Brittany, in the department of Finistère, France. The present monastery is a modern foundation at the site of an early mediaeval monastery, of which only ruins survive.

First foundation

The abbey is traditionally held to have been founded around 490[1] by Saint Winwaloe (French: Guénolé). It became a Benedictine house in the eighth century. It was attacked and burned by Vikings in 913 and was subsequently rebuilt in stone.[2][3]

The abbey was suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution and the goods and premises were sold off.

Second foundation

In 1950[4] the site was bought by the Benedictine community of Kerbénéat,[5][6] who built new premises. The community formed part of the Subiaco Congregation, since 2013 the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation.

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Le Moyne de La Borderie, Arthur (1861). Annuaire historique et archéologique de Bretagne: Année 1861. Ganche. p. 132.
  2. ↑ Landévennec
  3. ↑ Forte, Angelo; Oram, Richard; Pedersen, Frederik (2005). Viking Empires. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 65. ISBN 9780521829922.
  4. ↑ Renouard, Michel, Bretagne, Éditions Ouest France, 2007, p. 49
  5. ↑ Companions of St.Guénolé Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints, March (2000), p. 24.

Sources

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