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122: 25: 260:, proved to be La Trappe's greatest leader. De Rancé experienced a religious conversion which led him to take his responsibilities seriously. He became abbot in fact as well as in name. From 1664 La Trappe was the centre of a thorough reform of the Cistercian Order, led by de Rancé. The reform movement took the name of the abbey and became renowned as an order. 243:. It was in the path of both the English and French armies. The monks were forced to abandon the monastery, which was burnt and pillaged in 1376 and again in 1465. In the 16th century, after the reconstruction, the abbey, in common with many other monasteries, was given to a series of absentee abbots 323:
In 1880 the Trappists were expelled under French laws against religious institutions, but after a couple of years, they were able to return. The monastery was entirely rebuilt under the 45th abbot, Dom Etienne Salasc; the new church was consecrated on 30 August 1895.
309:, de Lestrange purchased the property back in 1815. When the religious community returned, the brothers found the premises in a ruinous state. They rebuilt the monastery in its entirety and the new church was consecrated on 30 August 1832. 343:
style, are still occupied by the Trappist community, under the leadership of abbot Dom Guerric Reitz-SĂ©jotte, appointed in 2004. La Trappe Abbey directly supervises four other Trappist houses, at Bellefontaine in
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The site of the famous La Trappe Abbey was for centuries isolated in a valley surrounded by forests, streams and lakes, 9 miles from
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De Rancé had criticised Mabillon for putting his energies into scholarship rather than the manual labour prescribed by the Rule
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The abbey's reputation as a place of retreat continued. It attracted both the Count of Artois, afterwards
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In 1140 the monastery of La Trappe was raised to the status of abbey. In 1147
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The abbey did not escape the general fate of religious houses under the
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The French government sold the abbey as national property. After the
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After years of prosperity, La Trappe suffered during the
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came here while a refugee in France. The distinguished
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disaster of 1120.) A few years later Rotrou built a
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Orne
France
Trappists
Mortagne
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Diocese of SĂ©ez
Normandy
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Rotrou III, Count of Perche
Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche
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Le Breuil-Benoît Abbey
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Order of Savigny

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