Abbaye Notre Dame de Fontgombault ~Benedictine

Founded in 1091. Abbaye Notre-Dame de Fontgombault is a Benedictine monastery of the Solesmes Congregation located in Fontgombault in the département of Indre, France.With 90 Monks raging in age from 20 to 85, of 10 different nationalities(2004)
an Monastery in Full Communion with Pope Benedict XVI,who still Celebrate the Classical Monastic Roman rites with Gregorian Chant, and Tridentine Mass.
they also have other foundations in France and in Oklahoma, USA.

in 1905 the Trappists were expelled from France under the 'Association Laws' and the monastery was secularized and sold off for a second time. The purchaser was Louis Bonjean, who set up a button factory in the premises. At his death in 1914 the buildings were put to use as a military hospital for wounded soldiers of the Belgian army, which it remained until 1918.

The Trappists who were expelled in 1905, went on to form the Monastery of Our Lady of Jordan, Oregon in the United States.

From 1919 to 1948 the premises accommodated a diocesan seminary, which closed for want of vocations.
Present foundation
In 1948 the empty buildings were restored to the site's original purpose when 22 monks from Solesmes Abbey settled it afresh as a Benedictine community. It is now the most populous of Solesmes' foundations, comprising over a hundred monks, and has in its turn founded another three religious houses in France — Randol Abbey, (1971), Triors Abbey (1984) and Gaussan Priory (1994) — as well as Clear Creek Priory in the United States in 1999.

Abbaye Notre Dame
36220 FONTGOMBAULT
FRANCE

As part of the Solesmes Congregation within the Benedictine Confederation, the abbey focusses on the use of Gregorian chant. The monks celebrate Mass using the vetus ordo (Tridentine rite, or Missal of St Pius V).

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