name

Sénanque

                            latin name

Sinanqua (= de sana aqua)

                               founded

09 juillet 1148

                         inhabited by

moines cisterciens

                       primary abbey

Cîteaux

                        mother abbey

Mazan

                    daughter abbeys

1152 Chambons, les

 

                                  monks

1365 Avignon

                          dissolved in

1791

                        reinhabited in

1854

 

                          dispersed in

1880

                     reconstituted in

1927

                          affiliated to

Ordo Cisterciensis

          actual father immediate

Lérins

          actual daugther abbeys

Lérins (1868)

 

                                 monks

                                 to visit

                                address

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque

84220 Gordes

France

                                  phone

[+33] (0) 4 90 72 02 05

                                      fax

[+33) (0) 4 90 72  07 45

                                   email

communaute@senanque.fr 

                                internet

www.senanque.fr

 

 

 







 

 

 

 

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