Saint-Vigor Priory, formerly Saint-Vigor Abbey (French: Prieuré Saint-Vigor; Abbaye Saint-Vigor-le-Grand), was a Benedictine monastery in the town of Saint-Vigor-le-Grand in Calvados, Normandy, France. Its foundation is attributed to Saint Vigor, bishop of Bayeux in the first third of the 6th century.[1] It was destroyed in the late 10th century by the invading Normans.[2] In the late 11th century Odo, bishop of Bayeux, attempted a revival of the monastery as an independent abbey but it was not successful, and in the 1090s the community was made a dependent priory of the Abbey of St. Benignus, Dijon.[2] The abbey relinquished its rights over the priory in 1702. The reformist Congregation of St. Maur took it on in 1712.[3] It was suppressed in 1790 in the French Revolution.[3]

Priory gatehouse

It has been listed as a historical monument since 1908.[4]

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