[1] At first the monks of Flavigny celebrated the Tridentine Mass that Pope Pius V and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre had ordained for their priests.

From the mid-1980s, rumors announcing the ordination of four bishops without the agreement of Rome gradually led the community to move away from the Lefebvriste movement.

[citation needed] Contacts were established with the Diocese of Dijon and the community was recognized as a monastery under diocesan law on 2 February 1988.

[4] At the request of the bishop of Dijon, the conventual mass is today celebrated according to the ordinary form of the Roman Rite, in Latin and ad Orientem (in fact towards the southeast).

[5] Since its foundation and faithful to its own spirit, the abbey has regularly offered retreats for men where they undertake the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola.