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    Scourmont Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Scourmont) is a Trappist monastery on the Scourmont plateau, in the village of Forges which is part of Chimay in...
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    created with a merger of 14 communes in 1977. The Trappist monastery of Scourmont Abbey in the town is famous for the Chimay Brewery. The etymology of the...
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    Chimay Brewery (Brasserie de Chimay) is a brewery at Scourmont Abbey, a Trappist monastery in Chimay, Hainaut, Belgium, one of the thirteen breweries...
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  • January 2020) was a Belgian priest and writer who became a monk of Scourmont Abbey. After his secondary studies at Collège Saint-Servais in Liège, de...
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    the protection of the Trappist monastery, Scourmont Abbey, established at Scourmont in Chimay in 1850. Scourmont has become famous as one of the six Trappist...
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    Westvleteren founded Scourmont Abbey on the barren plateau of Scourmont near Chimay. In 1871 the priory was granted the status of abbey by Pope Pius IX. Between...
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  • (1878–1952), was a Belgian historian of the Cistercian order and a monk of Scourmont Abbey. Canivez was born in Binche on 20 November 1878. He was educated at...
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    Trappists and Trappistines, respectively. They are named after La Trappe Abbey, the monastery from which the movement and religious order originated. The...
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    from the Trappist Order, who now occupy the abbey, came in 1929 from Scourmont Abbey in Belgium. The monastery was rebuilt in 1940, after a fire. Perfume...
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    later became superior of Bamenda Abbey (Cameroon) which he served from 1993 until 1996, and superior of Scourmont Abbey (Belgium), from 1996 until 1998...
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    at Westvleteren. In 1850, some of the monks founded the Notre-Dame de Scourmont monastery, which also brews a Trappist beer called Chimay. During World...
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    Bishop of Thiruvalla, invited Francis Mahieu, a Trappist monk from the Scourmont Abbey in Belgium, to come to Kerala to start the ashram. He was later joined...
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    evicted temporarily. Later a new abbot was appointed, the prior of Scourmont Abbey in Belgium, Father Simon Dubuisson. Dom Willibrordus was transferred...
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    also Scourmont Abbey Clairefontaine Abbey (Abbaye de Clairefontaine) near Arlon (Luxembourg): Trappist nuns Cortenberg, see Kortenberg Coudenberg Abbey, see...
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    Citeaux.net: Cistercian website (by the abbot of Scourmont Abbey) (in French) Cister.net: Cistercian Abbeys and Sites of Europe for visitors (in French) Ocist...
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    theatre at the Palace of Fontainebleau. He financed the foundation of Scourmont Abbey on Chimay lands and in 1858 headed the consortium which founded the...
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  • Canivez, Joseph-Marie, 1926: L'Ordre de Cîteaux en Belgique. Abbaye de Scourmont, Forges-lez-Chimay Mardaga, P. (ed.), 1998: Le patrimoine monumental de...
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    1865 Joseph-Marie Canivez: L'ordre de Citeaux en Belgique, Abbaye de Scourmont, Forges-lez-Chimay, 1926 Dom Antoine Vandekerckhove: Histoire de l'abbaye...
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  • Postel Abbey Rochefort Abbey Roosenberg Abbey St. Andrew's Abbey, Bruges St. Sixtus' Abbey St. Trudo's Abbey, Bruges Scourmont Abbey Soleilmont Abbey Ten...
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  • Provincial elections 11 June – Partial legislative elections 25 July – Scourmont Priory established 4 August – Mediation by the King of the Belgians leads...
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    municipality of its own until January 1, 1977. The Trappist abbey Notre-Dame de Scourmont and the source of the river Oise are located near Forges. Ville...
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  • After theological studies at the monastery of Scourmont in Belgium, he was ordained a priest in Caldey Abbey in 1957 by Bishop Theodor Suhr OSB from Copenhagen...
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    Soleilmont Abbey (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Soleilmont) is an abbey of Trappistine nuns (O.C.S.O., or Order of Cistercians of the Strict Obervance)...
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  • of overwork, and to recover he spent time in retreat at the Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-Scourmont. In a letter to his wife Germaine, Hergé wrote: "Life has spoilt...
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  • time with his close friend Marcel Dehaye in a retreat at the Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-Scourmont. That month, he revived Land of Black Gold – the Adventure...
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