Marmoutier Abbey
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Marmoutier Abbey can refer to:
- Marmoutier Abbey (Tours)Marmoutier Abbey (Tours)Marmoutier Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Marmoutier , was an early monastery outside Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. In its later days it followed the Benedictine order as an influential monastery with many dependencies....
- Marmoutier Abbey (Alsace)Marmoutier Abbey (Alsace)Marmoutier Abbey, otherwise Maursmünster Abbey, was a Benedictine monastery in the commune of Marmoutier in Alsace.-History:The first foundation here, either in the late 6th century, or by Saint Leobard in 659, was a community of Irish monks under the Rule of St. Columbanus...