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Saint-Ghislain Abbey

Saint-Ghislain, Belgium · built 601

Saint-Ghislain Abbey (Abbaye de Saint-Ghislain) was a monastery founded by Saint Ghislain around 650, located in Wallonia on the Haine (Hainaut, Belgium). It became a Benedictine monastery around 940, when reformed by Gérard of Brogne, and was suppressed in 1796.

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