Évron Abbey () is a former Benedictine abbey in Évron, in the Mayenne department in France. Its foundation is ascribed to the 7th century. It was dissolved in 1791 during the French Revolution. The former monastic church survived intact,Some 14th-century stained glass from the abbey is now in the American museum The Cloisters: Young, Bonnie (1979), A Walk Through the Cloisters. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. and is now the Basilica of Notre-Dame de l'Épine ("Our Lady of the Thorn").Website of the town of Évron: La Basilique ]
The abbey is now the seat of the Community of Saint Martin, an association of priests and deacons living their apostolate in community.Website of the Communauté Saint-Martin
Notes and references
Bibliography Abbé Angot, Le restaurateur de l'abbaye d'Évron, in "Bulletin de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne", 1913, No 29, pp. 443–493 Abbé Augustin Ceuneau, L'église et l'abbaye bénédictines de Notre-Dame d'Évron. Évron: E. Letellier, 1931