List of Christian religious houses in France
This is a list of Christian religious houses in France, both extant and non-extant, and for either men or women (or both).
Christian religious houses arranged by order
Augustinians
- Chancelade Abbey (Abbaye de Chancelade or Abbaye Notre-Dame de Chancelade), canons (Chancelade, Dordogne)[1]
- Paris:
- Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Mary and Jesus of the Perpetual Adoration, Rue de Picpus, Paris (Congrégation des Sacrés Coeurs de Marie et de Jésus de l'Adoration Perpétuelle), canonesses; formerly the Priory of the Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Victory of Lepanto, known during the French Revolution as the Maison de Santé de Coignard (at the Revolution the canonesses were expelled, and a certain Coignard took over the buildings as a nursing home for sick prisoners of the Terror. The gardens however were used for the disposal of the bodies of the victims of the guillotine. After the revolution a community of canonesses was re-installed here, as a memorial to the many dead).[2]
- Abbey of St. Genevieve, Paris[3]
- Abbey of St. Victor, Paris[4][5]
- Sablonceaux Abbey, Charente-Maritime[6]
- Abbey of St. Jean des Vignes, Soissons[7]
- Abbey of St. Loup, Troyes[8]
Benedictines
(including Cluniacs):
Carthusians
Cistercians
(including Trappists):
Dominicans
- Convent of Sainte Marie de la Tourette (Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette), friars (Éveux, Rhône)[9]
Franciscans
- Capuchin Friary, Crest (Monastère des Capucins de Crest) Capuchin friars, (Crest, Drôme)[10]
- Poor Clare Convent (Gravelines)
Premonstratensians
References
- ↑ "Les Amis de l'Abbaye de Chancelade".
- ↑ "THE REVOLUTIONARY CEMETERY OF PICPUS". The Pieton De Paris (in French). October 26, 2007.
- ↑ "Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève". New Advent.
- ↑ Coulter, Dale. "Abbey of St. Victor". faculty.leeu.edu/. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008.
- ↑ "Abbey of Saint-Victor". New Advent.
- ↑ "Abbey de Sablonceaux". abbaye-sablonceaux.com. Archived from the original on December 18, 2014.
- ↑ "The former abbey Saint-Jean des Vignes". Ville de Soissons (in French). Archived from the original on May 22, 2010.
- ↑ "Saint-Loup Museum". City of Troyes (in French). Archived from the original on October 30, 2007.
- ↑ Website of the Convent of La Tourette
- ↑ "The Capuchins: History and Current Community". dioiscrestois.cef.fr (in French).
- Soissons Municipal website: St. Jean des Vignes Abbey (in French)
- Marseille-Tourisme.com: Abbaye Saint Victor (in French)
- St. Victor's Abbey, Paris
- Le Piéton de Paris: Canonesses, Rue de Picpus (in French)
- Friends of Chancelade Abbey (in French)
- Patrimoine de France (in French)
- Catholic Encyclopedia:
- Troyes municipal website: St. Loup's Abbey (in French)
- Capuchin friary, Crest (in French)
- Carmel de Lisieux (in French)
See also
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