Solesmes Abbey

 monastery, Order of Saint Benedict, catholicism, Roman Catholic church

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 and Gregorian Chant,in France under Dom Prosper Guéranger after the French Revolution.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.
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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