Monastic order of Avallon

Founded French religious order in 1970 by Henri Hillion de Coatmoc' han (1922-1982), left the Order of Saint-Colomban (itself prone of the Celtic orthodoxe church) by will of rupture with the context connected with the church Christian. Apostolic filiation nevertheless was conceded to him, as individual charisma, by the Celtic bishop Monseigneur Iltud-Michel Raoult; the Monastic order of Avallon thus concerns a double filiation: orthodoxe Christian woman and neo-druidic.

In its abbey of Keravalenn, with the locality Seven-Saint close to Old man-Market (Coast-in Armor), then in the abbey of Runmeno built by the monks, the Monastic order of Avallon became, under the direction of the general abbot Bernard Ghoul devoted in 1972, the most important spiritual community of Brittany in the years 1970, with the Dominican abbey of Boquen directed by the reforming abbot Dom Bernard Besret.

The numerical extension of the Order, supported by a weak internal discipline, at the same time as it led to the foundation of one second community in Montpellier around Paul Fournier of Brescia, involved the dilution of the Community spirit and the monastic lifestyle. In 1976, after the failure of a project of reformation initiated by the abbot Bernard, the abbey of Runmeno is little by little abandoned. The Order is survived, but in-outside monastic context, within the community of Montpellier, then disappears in 1993. The name of the Monastic order of Avallon, recovered by one of its founders engaged in the alternative medicine, is quoted in the Commission Report of inquiry parliamentary of fight against the sects in 1996.

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