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    miles) south of Poitiers. It is known for its historic monastery, Ligugé Abbey. Ligugé is twinned with: Sonning, United Kingdom Communes of the Vienne department...
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    Ligugé Abbey, formally called the Abbey of St. Martin of Ligugé (French: Abbaye Saint-Martin de Ligugé), is a French Benedictine monastery in the Commune...
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    evolved to Ligugé. Its reputation was soon eclipsed by Martin's later foundation at Marmoutier. As of 2013, the Benedictine community at Ligugé numbered...
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    oblate in a monastery, as Huysmans himself was in the Benedictine Abbey at Ligugé, near Poitiers, in 1901. La cathédrale was his most commercially successful...
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    include Marguerite Bervoets and Fernande Volral, and a Dom Lambert, a monk of Ligugé Abbey in France, who was beheaded there on 3 December 1943. The baroque...
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  • who in the preface identifies himself as a member of St Martin's Abbey at Ligugé, near Poitiers, and who wrote the work at the behest of his teacher Ursinus...
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    twinned with Ligugé, France. The village has an active twinning association and the lane to the village primary school is called Ligugé Way. Sonning Parish...
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  • heading towards suicide, and takes refuge at an abbey situated in the town of Ligugé; it is also where his literary hero, Huysmans, became a lay member. Ben-Abbes...
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    French Revolution. The first foundation of the new congregation in 1853 was Ligugé Abbey, founded by St. Martin of Tours in 361. In course of time other daughterhouses...
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  • France, established in the 11th century Ligugé Abbey, otherwise the Abbey of St. Martin, Ligugé, a monastery in Ligugé, France, established in 360 Weingarten...
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