The Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel is an abbey complex and historical pilgrimage destination built on Mont Saint-Michel, a particular rocky islet that emerges from the English Channel facing the Normandy coast.
Near Mont Saint-Michel, the forest of Scissy, then not yet invaded by the sea, was home to two Celtic tribes, who used the rock for Druidic cults.
Christianity made its appearance in Armorica around the fourth century and a first oratory dedicated to Santo Stefano.
A first oratory was then placed in a cave and the previous denomination of Mont-Tombe was replaced with the already mentioned one of Mont-Saint-Michel-au-péril-de-la-Mer.
Mont Saint-Michel had also acquired strategic value with the annexation of the Cotentin peninsula to the Duchy of Normandy in 933, coming to find itself on the border with the Duchy of Brittany.
Duke Richard I during his pilgrimages to the sanctuary was indignant by the laxity of the canons, who delegated the cult to salaried clerics, and obtained from Pope John XIII a bull that gave him the authority to restore order to the monastery and founded a new Benedictine abbey in 966, with monks from Saint Wandrille.
The Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey
Address: 50170 - Moint Saint - Michel
Phone: +33233898000
Site:
http://www.abbaye-mont-saint-michel.fr/Location inserted by
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