“Writers have loved Lagrasse. There, they found friends, advisors, guides, simple men above all. No one was there to convince the other. But the gamble was not won in advance” writes Nicolas Diat in his preface… What happened at this abbey in the Corbières region between Carcassonne and Narbonne? Forty-two young canons live a life…
Lagrasse Abbey has a number of enclosed garden areas, documented in archives dating back to the Middle Ages; They have been redeveloped since the installation of the canons; The bible garden is located to the east of the church, south transept and bell tower. Open to all visitors, it includes some thirty biblical plants with…
BEFORE AFTER 3,175 m2 of walls cleaned and repointed; 200 linear m of wooden beams, 197 m2 of lead 107 m2 of tinned copper, 100 closing grids, 48 m3 of cut stone, 45 m of guardrails, 10 doors, 8 bays closed with sound baffles; 7 flying buttresses, 4 buttress heads and pinnacles, 4 gargoyles, 3…
The Apostolic Nuncio, Mgr Celestino Migliore, gave a spiritual address at the blessing of the bell tower; Here is an extract: “Today we inaugurate and bless one of the oldest and most characteristic symbols of Christian life: the bell tower; It stands tall in the valley like a sign: a finger stretched towards Heaven; Its…
In the Figaro newspaper of June 4, the Dassault family announced that the Abbey of Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse would benefit from the support of their family endowment; The entire community and the many friends who have supported the restoration of the Abbey since 2004 have been greatly honored by this election; The Abbey meets the…
The inauguration of our restored bell tower on May 28 was a great success; Among the officials present were the Apostolic Nuncio to France, the President of the Conseil Départemental, the Regional Director of Cultural Affairs for Occitanie (DRAC), and the General Delegate of the Fondation Notre Dame; We were also surrounded by the patrons…
We asked you last December to restore the bell tower’s first floor vault, to complete this important and time-consuming project. We would like to thank you warmly for your generosity, which has enabled us to raise €26,000; Thanks to you this first stage of the restoration has just been completed. You’ll be able to come…
In June, as the outside scaffolding was dismantled, the scaffolders immediately reassembled it inside; The stonemasons begin purging the joints and replacing damaged stones on the 25-metre high wall; Among other things, they clean the inside of the dome beneath the bell chamber; Finally, they prepare the recesses for the beams of the two floors…
