Côme Besse is the founder of Divine Box, a French website that sells monastic products. Newly married, he loves his wife and traveling to abbeys to dig out the
Located in southeastern France, Notre-Dame d’Aiguebelle Abbey is a French Trappist abbey founded in 1137. Today, the community consists of 19 monks who pray and work together. Let’s look at the abbey’s history and and learn a little about the monks’ products. Brief history of Aiguebelle To...
Welcome to the abbey Notre-Dame de Tournay in the Hautes-Pyrénées, in France! Rebuilt in 1951, its history began recently, but its roots are much older. Eighteen Benedictine monks live there today. They follow the rule of Saint Benedict: “Pray and work.” Below, we will take you on a little tour...
The only Trappist monastery in Alsace (in eastern France) is Our Lady of Oelenberg, located next to Mulhouse and surrounded by fields and forests. These Alsacian monks are well known for their delicious homemade pasta and wheat flour. But the almost thousand-year-old abbey, founded in 1046, also has a very...
Welcome to Chimay in Belgium, just a few kilometers away from the French-Belgian border. This is where the abbey of Notre-Dame de Scourmont has been located since 1850, and where they brew their very famous Trappist beers! Let’s visit the beautiful Ardennes and discover this 19th-century abbey, and of...
Located in Occitania, France, Bonneval Abbey was founded in 1147. From the beginning, the community was home to a Cistercian monastery, which was later expelled during the French Revolution. Since 1875, about 20 Trappistine nuns have resided there. And since 1878, these nuns have managed a chocolate factory between their...
