Summary Page: Current House
Name: Frigolet, Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. and S. Michael
Circary: French
Diocese: Diocese of Aix-en-Provence
Electronic Address information
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URLs:
Monasticon Praemonstratense (III, 337)
Elm Number: 230*
History:
Near Tarascon. Founded in the tenth century as an Augustinian house, Frigolet was established as a Norbertine Canonry in 1858. It was elevated to the status of Abbey in 1869.
* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.