Mazan Abbey [SEP] religious order
Mazan Abbey
Mazan Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in the village of Mazan-l'Abbaye in the "département" of the Ardèche in the region of Rhône-Alpes, France.
It was founded in 1120 from Bonnevaux Abbey, incorporating an already existing community of canons, and was the mother house of Le Thoronet Abbey (1136), Silvanès Abbey (1136), Bonneval Abbey (1147) and Sénanque Abbey (1148). It was plundered during the Hundred Years' War and again by the Huguenots, and revived
?) (Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, Val d'Oise)
- Mazan Abbey, monks, diocese of Viviers (Mazan-l'Abbaye, Ardèche)
- Mègemont Abbey, nuns, later monks, diocese of Clermont (Chassagne, Puy-de-Dôme)
- Melleray Abbey ("Abbaye Notre-Dame de Melleray"), monks, diocese of Nantes (La Meilleraye-de-Bretagne, Loire-Atlantique)
- Merci-Dieu Abbey, monks, diocese of Poitiers (La Roche-Posay