Landévennec Abbey

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Landévennec Abbey ({{langx|fr|Abbaye de Landévennec, Abbaye Saint-Guénolé de Landévennec}}) is a Benedictine monastery at Landévennec in Brittany, in the department of Finistère, France. The present monastery is a modern foundation at the site of an early mediaeval monastery, of which only ruins survive.

First foundation

The abbey is traditionally held to have been founded around 490{{Cite book|last=Le Moyne de La Borderie|first=Arthur|title=Annuaire historique et archéologique de Bretagne: Année 1861|publisher=Ganche|year=1861|pages=132}} by Saint Winwaloe ({{langx|fr|Guénolé}}). It became a Benedictine house in the eighth century. It was attacked and burned by Vikings in 913 and was subsequently rebuilt in stone.[http://france-for-visitors.com/brittany/finistere/landevennec.html Landévennec]{{cite book |last1=Forte |first1=Angelo |last2=Oram |first2=Richard |last3=Pedersen |first3=Frederik |title=Viking Empires |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521829922 |pages=65}}

The abbey was suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution and the goods and premises were sold off.

Second foundation

In 1950Renouard, Michel, Bretagne, Éditions Ouest France, 2007, p. 49 the site was bought by the Benedictine community of Kerbénéat,[http://www.truro.anglican.org/st_guenole.htm Companions of St.Guénolé] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512144256/http://www.truro.anglican.org/st_guenole.htm |date=2008-05-12 }}Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints, March (2000), p. 24. who built new premises. The community formed part of the Subiaco Congregation, since 2013 the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation.