Port-du-Salut Abbey

In 1815, after twenty years of exile due to the suppression of religious orders by Napoleon, the Trappists returned to work in France.

The new community was formally recognised as an abbey on December 10, 1816, by Pope Pius VII.

Today, in addition to the conventual buildings, the abbey church and the beautiful chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, the abbey has a house for pilgrims with about 30 rooms and a small shop at the entrance selling religious books and the produce of the monks: jam, honey, biscuits, cakes.

There is also at the abbey entrance a small external house for pilgrims, in case of emergency arrivals at night.

According to a plaque, all those who recite three Hail Marys are granted 100 days of indulgence, as determined by Pope Pius IX.