When in Summer 1954 a group of Arab nationalists from a nearby detention camp was forced to build a water pipe between Toumliline and Azrou, the monks under abbot Dom Denis Martin served the overseers as well as the prisoners mint tea.

Mohammed V, who appreciated the solidarity of the Catholic and Protestant churches with the Moroccans during their independence fight and maintained good relations with archbishop Louis Lefèbvre, served as patron for these conferences.

[3][5] Other people in attendance included the Arab socialist Mehdi Ben Barka,[3] the American philosopher F. S. C. Northrop[5] as well as the Moroccan princess Lala Aicha who gave a talk on the role of women building the new Morocco.

[6] Thomas Merton, who met Dom Denis Martin (whom he said was "experimenting with a new kind of monastic life"), expressed in 1963 in a letter to Jean Leclercq his admiration for the monastery and his desire to go there.

[2] Though the monastery closed down, the Catholic Church continued Christian-Muslim dialogue, opening an inter-faith and study center in Rabat in 1980-81 and supporting the formation of the Groupe de Recherche Islamo-Chrétien in 1977 which still exists today.

Thus, in May 2022 the foundation of "Memories for the Future" and the Department of Water and Forests signed an agreement to preserve the buildings and develop cultural tourism that enhances the exceptional heritage of the site.

That same year, a conference took place between Moroccan and French organisations that agreed to hold another meeting of similar character at some point at the site of the monastery.