Saint-Ghislain Abbey

Saint-Ghislain Abbey (French: Abbaye de Saint-Ghislain) was a monastery founded by Saint Ghislain around 650, located in Wallonia on the Haine (Hainaut, Belgium). It became a Benedictine monastery around 940, when reformed by Gérard of Brogne, and was suppressed in 1796.

History

On 2 June 965, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, confirmed Godfrey of Lower Lotharingia's gift to the abbey of 18 mansi of land in Villers-Saint-Ghislain.

Notable members

• Mathieu Moulart

References

See also

• List of Christian monasteries in Belgium

1. St. Gabriel's Abbey, Prague
2. Waltrude
3. Josquin des Prez
4. Timeline of Belgian history
5. Cistercians
6. List of Christian monasteries in Belgium
7. Cañas, La Rioja
8. Saint-Lô
9. Benedictine Abbey of Pietersburg
10. Leocadia
11. Mathieu Moulart
12. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels
13. Battle of Saint-Denis (1678)
14. Saint symbolism: Saints (A–H)
15. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai
16. Soignies
17. Cistercian nuns
18. Gérard of Brogne
19. List of Premonstratensian monasteries in France
20. Jacobus van Eynde