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A little HISTORY

At the beginning of Christianity, ascetic men and women withdrew to the desert to live in deeper loyalty to the Gospel and seek interiority. Christian monachism originated in Egypt around 270 when Antony heard the call to leave all to follow Christ.

This movement soon spread throughout the Mediterranean. Monastic communities appeared simultaneously in the eastern and western churches.

Monks and nuns set out as pilgrims of the Gospel, giving rise all over Europe to monasteries which became centres of the Christian life. Various rules organized the material and spiritual life of these communities.

In the north of Merovingian Gaul, the first germ of monachism came from across the Channel. Saint Columban, an Irish monk of fiery heart and strict asceticism went across Europe from the Celtic Coasts to Burgundy and northern Italy. He founded monastic cells everywhere he went. Jouarre is part of this movement and at the beginning followed an austere Rule based on that of Columban.

In the eighth century, Charlemagne convoked a synod at Aachen for reforming the Church. In concern for unification, the monastic communities adopted the Rule of St Benedict of Nursia, well-known for its humanity. This Rule still today regulates the life of the community of Jouarre.