Glanfeuil Abbey

The story is based on a fictional hagiography written by Abbot Odo of Glanfeuil to acquire a prestigious patron for his small abbey on the Loire river and to console his community which had been driven into exile by the Vikings.

Excavations at the end of the nineteenth century disclosed a possible Merovingian monastery built on the ruins of a Roman villa.

The first mention of Glanfeuil is around the middle of the eighth century when it was in the possession of Gaidulf of Ravenna, who depleted its resources until the monastery itself was little more than a ruin.

[3] On 14 July 847 Charles the Bald confirmed Ebroin's right of possession of the abbey, apparently without oversight from Fossés, and its heritability in his family.

Eventually it was refounded in the surviving structures in 1890, by Louis-Charles Couturier, O.S.B., the Abbot of Solesmes Abbey, as part of his program of revival of monasticism in post-revolutionary France.

After finding refuge in Baronville, Belgium (now part of the municipality of Beauraing), the monks began to search for a permanent home.

association (Organisation de Vacances, Animations et Loisirs) for residential courses for schools and as a holiday centre outside term times.