Abbaye Notre-Dame des Neiges

France / Languedoc-Roussillon / La Bastide-Puylaurent /
 monastery, catholicism, Roman Catholic church
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (Our Lady of the Snows) is a Trappist Catholic monastery in the Ardèche département of south-central France. It was built in 1850.
It was famously visited by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1878 while on a hiking trip documented in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.
Offices (Roman Catholic) are open to the public:

Vigiles * (4h30)
* Morning Prayer (7)
* Third (9)
* Mass (10:30 am, Sunday)
* Sext (12:15)
* None (13h, but Sunday and holidays 14:15)
* Vespers (18.30, but 18h Sunday and Holidays)
* Compline(20.30).

The abbey also offers retreats in silence.
Abbaye Notre Dame des Neiges
07590
Saint Laurent les Bains
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Snows_(Trappist_monastery)
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Coordinates:   44°36'2"N   3°56'1"E
This article was last modified 11 years ago