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Solesmes Abbey or
St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (
Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes) is a
Benedictine monastery in
Solesmes (
Sarthe), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in
France under
Dom Prosper Guéranger after the
French Revolution.
Priory
It was originally founded in
1010 as a priory of the Benedictine
Le Mans abbey. Its history was largely uneventful. It suffered considerably during the
Hundred Years' War but was afterwards restored. From the 17th century it underwent a slow decline under a series of
commendatory priors. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the
French Revolution.
Abbey
In 1831 the remaining buildings, which had escaped demolition in the Revolution but were threatened with destruction for want of a buyer, came to the attention of the locally-born priest
Prosper Guéranger, who, inspired by the vision of a restored monastic life in France, acquired them for the home of a new Benedictine community, which moved in on
11 July 1833. Against all expectation the new community flourished and in 1837 not only received Papal approval, but was elevated to the rank of an abbey and made the head of the newly created French Benedictine Congregation, now the
Solesmes Congregation within the
Benedictine Confederation.
In 1866 a nunnery,
St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes, was also founded at Solesmes, by Mother
Cécile Bruyère (the first abbess) with the support of Dom Guéranger, which was the first house of the nuns of the Solesmes Congregation.
The abbey was closed several times by French legislation, and between 1901 and 1922 the monks were forced into exile in England. They settled on the
Isle of Wight and built the present
Quarr Abbey. The community survived those trials and those of two world wars and is still at Solesmes.
As part of its mission of monastic revival the abbey has been the mother house of numerous other monastic foundations, most notably in recent years the monastery at
Palendriai in
Lithuania.
The abbey is noted for its crucial contribution to the advancement of the
Roman Catholic liturgy and the revival of
Gregorian chant.
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