Our-Lady-of-Grace abbey of Bricquebec

The abbey is founded the July 13rd 1824 by the abbot Bon Onfroy (1777 - 1857), cleaned Digosville; wishing to devote itself to a monastic life, the bishop of the diocese will offra to him a ground with Bricquebec.

In 1836, Rome sets up the priory in abbey and its founder becomes the first abbot under the name of Dom Augustin Onfroy.

The abbey will accommodate a community of monks cistercians and depends on the Abbaye of the Large Trap door (Soligny).

These Trappists were a long time famous in Normandy for their cheese, the Trappe of Bricquebec, and from now on are specialized in the porcine breeding and the pork-butchery.

External bonds

Information of the diocese of the English Channel
Composition of the abbey

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