Port-du-Salut Abbey

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Port-du-Salut Abbey, also the Abbey of Notre-Dame du Port du Salut (

. The main monastery building dates from around the 13th century.

History

The Trappist abbey was founded in the early nineteenth century. In 1815, after twenty years of exile due to the suppression of religious orders by

.

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

Present day

Today, in addition to the conventual buildings, the abbey church and the beautiful chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, the abbey has a house for

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

At the beginning of the 20th century at least 100 monks lived here, but today there are only 12.

Notre Dame du Triomphe

Behind the abbey is a little hill with a beautiful wild garden. A path leads to the column of Notre Dame du Triomphe (Our Lady of Triumph), a column on which there is a statue of the

.

Gallery

• 
  Dom Bernard de Girmont, first abbot, 1815.
• 
  The entrance, with the little shop to the left.
• 
  The abbey church

See also

• Port Salut cheese, created by and named after this abbey

Bibliography

• Abbaye du Port-du-Salut, in Dictionnaire historique, topographique et biographique de la Mayenne by Alphonse-Victor Angot, Ferdinand Gaugain. Goupil, 1900–1910, vol. III, pp. 335–337; vol. IV, p. 748.
• Notre-dame-du-Triomphe. La Terreur des Démons. Historique de l'origine de la Construction et de la Bénédiction du Monument érigé dans l'Enclos de l'Abbaye du Port-du-Salut. Près Laval (Mayenne). Fare de Religiulo-Pastro de la Monahxejo. Laval, Impr. Eugène Jamin, 1875;
• Louis-Julien Morin de la Beauluère, Notice sur Entrammes;
• Charles Meignan, L'abbaye de la Trappe;
• Mémorial de la Mayenne, t. IV, p. 245;
• Revue du Maine, t. XLVIII, p. 124;
• Affiches, 1815;
• Annonces, November 1822;
• Vie du baron de Géramb, manuscript;
• La Mayenne, 1845;
• Écho, 1854;
• Indépendant, 1856;
• Ami de la Religion, 1812;
• E. Sauvage, Une visite à la Trappe;
• Guide pittoresque en France;

References

External links

• Official website of Port-du-Salut Abbey

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