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Clairvaux Abbey (/ k l ɛər ˈ v oʊ /, French:; Latin: Clara Vallis) was a Cistercian monastery in Ville-sous-la-Ferté, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Bar-sur-Aube. The abbey was founded in 1115 by Bernard of Clairvaux. As a primary abbey, it was one of the most significant monasteries in
Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist. (Latin: Bernardus Claraevallensis; 1090 – 20 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, [a] and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian Order.
Clairvaux Abbey was founded in 1115 by Bernard of Clairvaux. In 1789, during the French Revolution, it became property of the State. In 1808, Napoleon turned it into a prison. [1] A good portion of the abbey's rich library is now housed in the Médiatéque du Grand Troyes (Grand Troyes Media Library). The initial prisoners were rebellious soldiers.
The Abbey of New Clairvaux is a rural Trappist monastery located in Northern California in the small town of Vina in Tehama County. [1] The farmland, once owned by Leland Stanford , grows prunes , walnuts , and grapes that the monks harvest from the orchards and vineyards to sustain the community.
The Abbey of St. Maurice and St. Maurus of Clervaux (Luxembourgish: Benediktinerabtei hellege Moritz) (French: Abbaye Saint-Maurice et Saint-Maur de Clervaux), founded in 1890, is a Benedictine monastery in Clervaux, Luxembourg.
Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist. (Latin: Bernardus Claraevallensis; 1090 – 20 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian Order.
The act of his that resonated longest in history was his grant of lands in 1115 to the monk Bernard of the reformed Benedictines at Cîteaux—the Cistercians—in order to found Clairvaux Abbey, a Cistercian monastery at Clairvaux (in the present Ville-sous-la-Ferté), in a wild valley of a tributary of the Aube, where Bernard was appointed ...
Clairvaux Abbey, a former Cistercian site; Clairvaux Prison, built on the site of the abbey; Clairvaux MacKillop College in Brisbane, Australia; Abbey of New Clairvaux, a rural Trappist monastery in northern California; Mount Clairvaux, a mountain on the Continental Divide and the boundary of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada