Abbey of Fleury -Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)

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Founded about 640, was one of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries of Western Europe. The monastery underwent a season of reform in its monastic life, about 930, along the lines first laid out at Cluny. The monastery enjoyed the patronage of the Carolingians for generations, it was also central to the political ambitions of the Robertian house descended from Robert I of France.The church is about three hundred feet long, its transept one hundred and forty feet. The choir of the church contains the tomb of a French monarch, Philip I of France, buried there in 1108. Of the abbey's buildings, only the basilica survives.
Refoundation takes place in 1944 with the arrival of a dozen monks from the Abbaye de la Pierre-Qui-Vire in Burgundy. The abbey, part of the Subiaco Benedictine Congregation, now has forty Religious, hosts hundreds of guests each year and nearly one hundred thousand visitors, tourists or pilgrims.

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