Founded by St. Martin of Tours in 361, the Saint-Martin Abbey of Ligugé, near Poitiers, is the oldest monastic establishment in the West still in activity.
Founded by St. Martin of Tours in 361, the Saint-Martin Abbey of Ligugé, near Poitiers, is the oldest monastic establishment in the West still in activity.
This monastery follows the Benedictine rule and its building has been protected as a historical monument since 1846. The Saint-Martin Abbey of Ligugé was destroyed during the Hundred Years’ War and then put on hold during the French Revolution when religious orders were banned. It was during this period that the priory was sold to an innkeeper from Poitiers in 1793 and then bought by a miller whose family kept it until the middle of the 19th century.
After a change of owner, Cardinal Pie, bishop of Poitiers, the monks were expelled several times in 1880 and again in 1901. A refuge for resistance fighters during the Second World War, the monastery’s reputation spread beyond France thanks to its enameling workshop, where the enameling brothers produced works based on illustrations by artists such as Georges Braque and Marc Chagall. The monks also produced studies in patrology – studies of the Fathers of the Church – and Assyriology.
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