Landévennec Abbey
![]() | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (August 2014) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Abbaye_de_Land%C3%A9vennec.jpg/220px-Abbaye_de_Land%C3%A9vennec.jpg)
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
- ^ Le Moyne de La Borderie, Arthur (1861). Annuaire historique et archéologique de Bretagne: Année 1861. Ganche. p. 132.
- ^ Landévennec
- ^ Forte, Angelo; Oram, Richard; Pedersen, Frederik (2005). Viking Empires. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 65. ISBN 9780521829922.
- ^ Renouard, Michel, Bretagne, Éditions Ouest France, 2007, p. 49
- ^ Companions of St.Guénolé Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints, March (2000), p. 24.
Sources
- Website of Landévennec Abbey (in French)
- Webarchive template wayback links
- Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas
- Building and structure articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
- Articles containing French-language text
- Articles with French-language sources (fr)
- Coordinates on Wikidata
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with Mérimée identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- Benedictine monasteries in France
- Carolingian architecture
- Buildings and structures in Finistère
- Ruins in Brittany
- Tourist attractions in Finistère
- Monuments historiques of Finistère