Saint-Beno4it cheese abbey of Port-Valais
The Saint-Benoît abbey of Port-Valais is a monastery Benedictine located at Bouveret in French-speaking Switzerland.
History
In 1924, two Monk S Swiss of the Belgian abbey of Maredsous, Dom Hildebrand Zimmermann and Dom Bonaventure Sodar, wanted, with the agreement of the Abbot of Maredsous, to restore the life bénédictine in French-speaking Switzerland. They settle initially with the hermitage of Longeborgne to Bramois close to Sion.
The place quickly proving too small to allow the development of the community, the Monastère went to be established with the castle of Corbières, in the Canton of Freiburg, not far from Bulle. The community is set up as a conventual Priory in 1935. At that time, in Swiss, it is interdict to found new monastic communities: consequently, the Prieuré was placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Abbot Primacy of the Confederation bénédictine and it remained discrete.
In 1956, the community moves again, towards the commune of Bouveret. This same year, the monastery is set up in abbey, and Dom Bonaventure becomes the first Abbot about it.
Today the abbey counts a score of Moine S.
External bonds
The official site of the abbey
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