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Saint-Ghislain Abbey

Saint-Ghislain Abbey - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Saint-Ghislain Abbey (Abbaye de Saint-Ghislain) was a monastery founded by Saint Ghislain around 650, located in Wallonia on the Haine (Hainaut, Belgium). It became a Benedictine monastery around 940, when reformed by Gérard of Brogne, and was suppressed in 1796. Read more on Wikipedia

• type: monastery
• date from: around 650; Benedictine from around 940

Source: en.wikipedia.org