The Abbey of Our Lady of Igny (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Igny;
Other names
Abbaye Notre-Dame du Val d'Igny
Order
Cistercian, Trappist
Established
1126-1128, 1876, 1929
Disestablished
1790-1874 and 1914-1929
Mother house
Cîteaux Abbey, France
Dedicated to
Virgin Mary
Diocese
Reims
People
Founder(s)
Rainaud II de Martigny, Archbishop of Reims
Important associated figures
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Blessed Abbot Guerric of Igny, Blessed Abbot Gerard of Clairvaux, Gaucher V de Châtillon
Site
Location
Arcis-le-Ponsart, Marne, France.
Igny Abbey or Val d'Igny Abbey (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Igny; Abbaye Notre-Dame du Val d'Igny) is a Cistercian abbey located in Arcis-le-Ponsart, Marne, France. It was founded in 1128 for Cistercian monks, dissolved in 1791 during the French Revolution, re-established in 1876 for Trappist monks, destroyed in 1918, reopened in 1929 for Trappist nuns and modernised in 2008–12 to accommodate three or four pre-existing communities.
IgnyAbbey or Val d'Igny Abbey (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Igny; Abbaye Notre-Dame du Val d'Igny) is a Cistercian abbey located in Arcis-le-Ponsart, Marne...
venerated in Igny. The Christmas Sermons of Bl. Guerric of Igny, trans Sr. Rosa of Lima, with an introduction by Thomas Merton, (Trappist, KY: Abbey of Gethsemani...
refounded IgnyAbbey. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1877, two years before taking solemn vows in 1879). He was made Prior in 1881 and Abbot of Igny in...
2012, when the remaining nuns transferred to IgnyAbbey) (Ubexy, Vosges) Ulmet Abbey, also known as Aumet Abbey (Abbaye d'Ulmet or d'Aumet), monks, diocese...
villa. The abbey was founded in 1131 and was settled in 1135 by twelve monks under the leadership of Bernard of Clairvaux himself from IgnyAbbey, its mother...
(died 29 October 1185) was a Cistercian monk who served as the abbot of Igny (1169–1179) and Clairvaux (1179–1185). Peter was born in Italy to a noble...
date) Gualfardo of Verona, Italian trader and hermit (d. 1127) Guerric of Igny, French abbot (approximate date) Henry I (the Elder), German nobleman (d...
20 km (12 mi) northwest of Mâcon. The town grew up around the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny, founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910. The height of Cluniac...
11th century), is the main surviving building of the former Benedictine abbey of Tournus, suppressed in 1785. It is in the Burgundian Romanesque style...
the Marne department in north-eastern France. Moiremont abbey is a former Benedictine abbey founded in 707 in the form of a congregation. In 1074, Reims'...
[ovile]) is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. The Abbey of St. Peter which existed here until the French Revolution was the home...
Romanesque to Art-déco. Reims Cathedral, the adjacent Palace of Tau, and the Abbey of Saint-Remi were listed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991...
sister city relationships with the following municipalities. Abbey of St Andoche, Autun Abbey of Saint-Jean-le-Grand Autun Cathedral Communes of the Saône-et-Loire...
date) Gualfardo of Verona, Italian trader and hermit (d. 1127) Guerric of Igny, French abbot (approximate date) Henry I (the Elder), German nobleman (d...
litensis or campus limites. We find the first written in the chronicle of the Abbey of Bèze. The first lord of Champlitte whose name is preserved was Gérard...
Michael Barnwell was born in the town in 1943. Crewkerne is twinned with Igny, Essonne and Bures-sur-Yvette in France. "Statistics for Wards, LSOAs and...
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