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Bonnevaux Centre for Peace is the international centre for meditation and retreat of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) http://www.wccm.org/ Housing a small residential community living in the spirit of the Rule of St Benedict, with four regular periods of meditation and prayer through the day, the centre provides the opportunity for visitors to further their understanding and practice of silent meditation in the tradition of the early Desert Fathers as taught by Fr. John Main OSB
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The Abbey of Our Lady of Bonnevaux, near Poitiers, was originally founded as a Benedictine community by Hugues de Lusignan and his wife, Saracena https://data.bnf.fr/13739352/abbaye_notre-dame_de_bonnevaux_marcay__vienne In 1124 it was enfolded into the Cistercian order under the mother institution of Pontigny Abbey https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Histoire_de_l%27abbaye_de_Pontigny,_ordre_de_C%C3%AEteaux Although there is also evidence that the site had been used many centuries earlier as a place of spiritual refuge, particularly by those early monastics seeking deeper seclusion than was available at the nearby communities of Liguge and Poitiers. There are written accounts of St Avitus having spent time there in the 6th Century https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k272250z/f169.item