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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

• List of Carolingian monasteries
• Carolingian architecture
• Gwenhael
• St Tudy
• Landévennec Group

Notes and references

Sources

• Website of Landévennec Abbey (in French)

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