11 December 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Pontigny Abbey, the church of which in recent decades has also been the
cathedral of the
Mission de France, otherwise the Territorial Prelature of Pontigny, was a
Cistercian monastery located in
Pontigny on the River
Serein, in the present
diocese of Sens and department of
Yonne,
Burgundy,
France. Founded in 1114, it was the second of the four great daughter houses of
Cîteaux Abbey. It was suppressed in 1791 in the
French Revolution and destroyed except for the church. In 1843 it was re-founded as a community of the
Fathers of St. Edmund. In 1909 it passed into private ownership. In 1941 it became the mother house of the Mission de France, a
territorial prelature.
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