Saint-Ghislain Abbey

Coordinates: 50°26′54″N 3°49′10″E / 50.44833°N 3.81944°E

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Saint-Ghislain Abbey
Monastery information
Abbaye de Saint-Ghislain
The chapel of the monastery's hospital
Order	Order of Saint Benedict
Established	around 650; Benedictine from around 940
Disestablished	1796
People
Founder(s)	Saint Ghislain
Site
Coordinates	50°26′54″N 3°49′10″E / 50.44833°N 3.81944°E / 50.44833; 3.81944

Saint-Ghislain Abbey (French: Abbaye de Saint-Ghislain) was a monastery founded by Saint Ghislain around 650, located in Wallonia on the Haine (Hainaut, Belgium). It became a Benedictine monastery around 940, when reformed by Gérard of Brogne, and was suppressed in 1796.

History

On 2 June 965, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, confirmed Godfrey of Lower Lotharingia's gift to the abbey of 18 mansi of land in Villers-Saint-Ghislain.^[1]

Notable members

Mathieu Moulart

References

^ D. Van Overstraeten, "Diploma van keizer Otto I voor de abdij van Saint-Ghislain, 965", tr. C. Vleeschouwers, in Doorheen de nationale geschiedenis (State Archives in Belgium, Brussels, 1980), pp. 10-13.

History

Notable members

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