Bois-Seigneur-Isaac Abbey [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Bois-Seigneur-Isaac Abbey
Bois-Seigneur-Isaac Abbey, in Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac, Belgium (a village now part of the town of Braine-l'Alleud), is a former Augustinian abbey, then a Premonstratensian priory, dependent on Averbode Abbey and now occupied by the Lebanese Maronite Order.
History.
History Origins - legend or history?
In the 11th century Lord Isaac ("Seigneur Isaac") set out on Crusade and was taken prisoner by the Saracens, but was miraculously
History Premonstratensian abbey.
When the Republican law of 1903 expelled all monks from France, the canons from Mondaye Abbey lived in exile at Bois-Seigneur-Isaac, buying and rebuilding the abbey ruins, turning the chapel into the monastery's church, and renewing and promoting the local devotion to the Holy Blood. The abbey again became an important pilgrimage and spiritual centre. In 1921 the canons were allowed to return to Mondaye and handed over Bois-Seigneur-Isaac to their co-brothers of Averbode Abbey, who ensured the