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  WELCOME! CONQUES Conques (pronounced kongk') is a place in the French. Dept. Aveyron, Arrond. Rodez, on the Dourdon. The most important building is an 11th century Romanesque church which was part of a former Benedictine abbey. [It was an important stop on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela as it houses the relics of Saint Faith (Fides, Foy], Virgin and Martyr. Since 1873, the church has been staffed by a small community of Premonstratensians from Frigolet.] This building features noteworthy sculptures on the portal and a rich church treasure (medieval goldsmith's work). Conques has (1901) 420 inhabitants. Source:  Meyer's Great Conversation Lexicon, Volume 4. Leipzig 1906, p. 259. Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk,  de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org ///

  WELCOME! TEGERNSEE ABBEY Tegernsee (Tegrinseo) is a celebrated Benedictine abbey of Bavaria that was of much importance for the civilisation of the early Middle Ages. It was situated on the state road to the Tyrol by Lake Tegern in a south-southeasterly direction from Munich. According to the latest Germanistic researches the word Tegern signified in Old High German "large", consequently the name meant "large lake".  It was not the Agilolfinger family, as is erroneously supposed, but Counts Adalbert and Otkar (Ottokar) of Warngau and Tegernsee who founded in 746 (not 719) a Benedictine abbey on lake Tegern near the little Church of Our Saviour that was already in existence; this abbey was consecrated and occupied in 754.  Counts Adalbert and Otkar belonged to the family of the Huosi, one of the five old ruling families who had come into the country with the Bavarians. The story of the colonising of the monastery with monks by Saint Othmar of Saint Gall is legen...

  WELCOME! HEISTERBACH  (VALLIS S. PETRI) A former Cistercian monastery in the Siebengebirge near the little town of Oberdollendorf in the Archdiocese of Cologne. It traces its origin to a knight named Walther, who lived as a recluse on the Stromberg, or Petersberg [Mount St Peter's], one of the mountains forming the Siebengebirge [Seven Mountains]. When numerous disciples began to settle near the cell of Walther, he built a monastery (1134) where they lived according to the Rule of St Augustine.  After the death of Walther his disciples left their monastery on the Petersberg and built the monastery of Reussrath on the Sulz.  In 1189 Archbishop Philip of Cologne requested Gisilbert, the Abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Himmerod in the Diocese of Trier, to repeople the deserted monastery of Petersberg with Cistercians from Himmerod.  On March 22, 1189, twelve Cistercian monks with their newly-appointed Abbot Hermann took possession of Petersberg. Three or fou...

  WELCOME! GIRGENTI Sicily Girgenti  is a province in Sicily... [it] venerates Saint Libertinus as its earliest apostle; he is said to have been sent thither by Saint Peter. The earliest bishop of whose date we are certain is Saint Potamius, a contemporary of Pope Agapetus I (535-36). Saint Gregory I, Bishop of Agrigentum, said to have been martyred in 262, is probably only a double of the homonymous bishop who was a contemporary of Saint Gregory the Great.  The list of bishops, interrupted by the Saracen invasion, began again in 1093 with Saint Gerlando. Other bishops of note are: Rinaldo di Acquaviva (1244), who restored the cathedral and crowned King Manfred, for which latter action he was excommunicated by Alexander IV; and Fra Matteo Gimara , called the Blessed. Girgenti is a suffragan of Monreale, has 66 parishes and 381,000 souls, 10 religious houses for men, and 42 for women. It is also a centre for the Azione Cattolica Sociale in Sicily.  From Catholic Encyc...

WELCOME! LÉRINS ABBEY Situated on an island of the same name, now known as that of Saint-Honorat, about a league from the coast of Provence, in the Department of the Maritime Alps, now included in the Diocese of Nice, formerly in that of Grasse or of Antibes.  It was founded at the beginning of the fifth century by  Saint Honoratus . This saint lived there at first the life of a hermit, but followers soon gathered around him. They came from all parts of Roman Gaul and even from Brittany.  During the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries, the influence exerted by the abbey was considerable. The presence of the  Saracens in Provence made the monastic life impossible or precarious for two centuries. The abbey was restored in the eleventh century, and a new era of prosperity began. It was given many estates and churches in the neighbouring Dioceses of Antibes, Aix, Arles, Frejus, Digne, Senez, Vence, Nice, Ventimiglia, etc. The popes, the counts of Provence, and the kings...

  WELCOME! LOCATIONS Abingdon Abbey Condat Abbey Conques Cordoba Corvey Abbey Diocese of Couserans Elten Women's Monastery Fountains Abbey Gerlachsheim Girgenti Heisterbach Hirschau Abbey Lérins Abbey Quedlinburg Abbey Sinigaglia Saint Florian Monastery Saint Victor's Abbey, Paris Rievaulx Abbey Tegernsee Abbey Villiers Abbey Windisch ///

  WELCOME! FOUNTAINS ABBEY A monastery of the Cistercian Order situated on the banks of the Skell about two and a half miles from Ripon in Yorkshire, was established by thirteen Benedictine monks of St Mary's Abbey, York.  Wishing to observe a more strict discipline, they obtained in 1132 from Thurston, Archbishop of York, a grant of land near Ripon.  Richard , the prior of St Mary's, was the leader of the party. Leaving St Mary's on October 9, they reached Fountains on December 26, 1132, and immediately placed themselves under St Bernard , who sent Geoffrey of Clairvaux to teach them the Cistercian Rule.  After two years of privation and poverty they decided to leave England and seek a home among their brethren abroad. This step was rendered unnecessary when Hugh, Dean of York, joined them, bringing with him money and property. He was followed by two canons of York, Serlo and Tosti, who brought still more wealth by means of which the suffering community was relieved...

  WELCOME! CORVEY ABBEY Corvei (Korvey [Corvey]) was a Princely Benedictine abbey and is now a castle in Prussia [Germany] in the district of Minden, on the river Weser. It is affiliated to the Corbie monastery in Picardy (hence the name " Corbeia nova "). Corvei was founded in 822 and was endowed with large estates and privileges by Louis the Pious. Corvei was a famous home of education and classical science, rebuilt in 1699, and raised to a prince-bishopric in 1793. [Sadly] it was secularised in 1803. ➡️ More locations Source: Brockhaus Encyclopedia, 5th edition, Leipzig, 1911 ///