Glanfeuil Abbey

Glanfeuil Abbey, otherwise the Abbey of St Maurus , was a French Benedictine monastery founded in the 9th century in the village of Saint-Maur-sur-Loire, located in what is now the commune of Le Thoureil, Maine-et-Loire.According to the legendary account attributed to Faustus, a fictional student of St. Benedict's, Bertrand, Bishop of Mans, sent his vicar, Harderadus and a companion, to Monte Cassino to ask St. Benedict to send some monks to Gaul. Benedict dispatched twelve monks, including St. Maurus and Faustus. Maurus then established Glanfeuil Abbey, thus making it the original Benedictine foundation in Gaul. The story is based on a fictional hagiography written by Abbot Odo of Glanfeuil to acquire a prestigious patron for his small abbey on the Loire river and to console his community which had been driven into exile by the Vikings. The modern common view is that while St. Maurus was a historical person, the Vita of Faustus is a fabrication by Abbot Odo from around 868.

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