Congregation of Savigny

The

Vitalis was a

The Congregation founded daughter-houses such as that at

Under Geoffroy, successor to Vitalis, Henry I of England, established and generously endowed twenty-nine monasteries of this Congregation in his dominions.^[4] Early in the 12th century, Buckfast Abbey was incorporated into the Benedictine Congregation of Savigny.^[5] The monasteries of Basingwerk (Flintshire) and Neath (Glamorgan) in Wales were founded as Savigniac houses, as was Combermere Abbey. St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin was founded as a Benedictine house in 862, and given to the Congregation of Savigny in 1139.^[6] From the number of its foundations Savigny became the head of a Congregation, numbering thirty-three subordinate houses, within thirty years of its own inception.

Administrative merger with the Cistercians

By 1147, the Order was experiencing financial and administrative difficulties. Abbot Serlo, third successor of the founder, found it difficult to retain his jurisdiction over the English monasteries, who wished to make themselves independent. He determined to affiliate the entire Congregation to

Later history

The Savigny Abbey continued to exist until the Revolution reduced it to a heap of ruins, and scattered its then existing members. Of all its former dependencies only

• Vitalis of Savigny
• Godfrey of Amiens
• Aimo of Savigny

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