Orval Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval) is a Cistercian monastery founded in 1132 in the Gaume region of Belgium, located in Villers-devant-Orval, part of Florenville, Wallonia in the province of Luxembourg. The abbey is well known for its history and spiritual life but also for its local production of the Trappist beer Orval and a specific cheese.
OrvalAbbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval) is a Cistercian monastery founded in 1132 in the Gaume region of Belgium, located in Villers-devant-Orval, part...
of Belgium. The brewery produces two Trappist beers, Orval and Orval Vert (first stage of the Orval) Evidence of brewing goes back to the earliest days...
Villers-devant-Orval. Other population centers include: Azy, Conques, Laiche, Martué, Lambermont, Le Ménil, and Watrinsart. OrvalAbbey is located in...
Montigny-Lengrain Orval, Rùm, a hill on Rùm, Inner Hebrides, Scotland OrvalAbbey - Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval, a Trappist monastery in Wallonia, Belgium Orval Brewery...
Catholic prelate who serves as Bishop of Ghent. He was previously abbot of OrvalAbbey from 2007 to November 2019. A monk since 1976, he is the only Trappist...
other countries.[citation needed] In 1997, eight Trappist abbeys – six from Belgium (Orval, Chimay, Westvleteren, Rochefort, Westmalle and Achel), one...
Trappists and Trappistines, respectively. They are named after La Trappe Abbey, the monastery from which the movement and religious order originated. The...
Croatian: Ivan de Hoio; died c. 1317) was an abbot of the Cistercian OrvalAbbey in present-day Belgium and Triumfontium in Luxembourg who, according...
dead of the Battle of the Yser, given by Dom Marie-Albert, Abbot of OrvalAbbey, Belgium, in 1936). The war inflicted great suffering on Belgium, which...
Montgaillard (1563–1628) was a French Cistercian preacher and abbot of OrvalAbbey. Bernard was born in 1563, the son of Bertrand de Percin, lord of Montgaillard...
an avid plunderer. Notorious for the sacking and destruction of the OrvalAbbey in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg and other acts, Loison was arrested by...
heads of the largest abbeys: St. Maximin's Abbey of Trier, Echternach Abbey, Münster Abbey, OrvalAbbey, and Saint-Hubert Abbey. The secular clergy, the...
order of enclosed monks and nuns formed in 1098, originating from Cîteaux Abbey. Their monasteries spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, but...
Tre Fontane Abbey (English: Three Fountains Abbey; Latin: Abbatia trium fontium ad Aquas Salvias), or the Abbey of Saints Vincent and Anastasius, is a...
Originally from the prince-bishopric of Liège, he lived and worked in the abbey of Orval in the archdiocese of Trier. His major work was the Gesta episcoporum...
exclusively-charcoal technique permanently. When he lived with the monks at OrvalAbbey starting in 1927, he drew the residents there using his charcoal-expressionist...
La Trappe Abbey, also known as La Grande Trappe, is a monastery in Soligny-la-Trappe, Orne, France. It is known for being the house of origin of the Trappists...
(Memel) is founded by the Teutonic Knights. The town and monastery of OrvalAbbey in Belgium burn to the ground; rebuilding takes 100 years. Thomas Aquinas...
Christian de Villeneuve-Esclapon. Jeanne was born on 15 September 1861 in OrvalAbbey, Belgium. She was one of five children born to her parents, but only...
last great decorative project, a mural on the graveyard wall of the OrvalAbbey, was completed by his student Anto Carte. On 5 March 1944, Constant Montald...