[9] In 883, Archbishop Rostang of Arles, the successor of Rotlang, restored the tomb of Saint Caesarius there, which had been violated shortly before during the capture and looting of the city by the Saracens.

From the sixth to the thirteenth century, the Abbey of Saint-Jean appears as a large landowner endowed initially by Caesaria then by Rostan in their wills, and enriched by purchases as well as numerous donations.

[15] A demographic crisis was linked in large part to the epidemics of plague, which caused the loss of more than half of the population of Arles between 1320 and 1430.

[15] At that time, the abbey ran up against the archbishop on several occasions and was shaken by internal conflicts linked to the personality of the nuns as well as to monastic discipline, which was slackened significantly.

[d] The problem still did not seem to be resolved at the end of the fifteenth century, when a nun decided to leave the monastery to join another community in Aix, because of the looseness of the abbey's mores.

In 1877 the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre-Dame des Douleurs [fr] moved into what remained of the buildings under the leadership of Berthilde Bertrand from Nancy, who financed the start of the project.

The king answered, Let her come to me without delay with her treasures, and I will take her to wife and make her great in the eyes of the people, that she may enjoy more honor with me than she has had with my brother who just died.

There she submitted only with great sorrow to the fasts and vigils; She therefore addressed herself by secret messengers to a certain Goth, promising him that, if he wanted to take her to Spain and marry her, she would leave the monastery with its treasures and follow him very willingly.

He promised it without hesitation: she had therefore gathered her effects and put them in bundles, preparing to leave the convent, but the abbess by her vigilance prevented this project, and having taken her in fraud had her cruelly castigated, then shut up, and she remained thus until her death in not small sufferings.

[3] In the sequel, Blessed Radegonde often sought to recover good relations with her bishop, but without being able to achieve it; so that, forced by necessity, she went to the city of Arles with the abbess she had instituted.

There, they embraced the rule of Saints Césaire and Césarie, and unable to arrange that their chosen pastor would defend them, they put themselves under the protection of the king.