Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque in France/ Showing the Before and Now thru IPad

The Monastery is Founded in 1148 , it became an abbey in 1150. Along with Silvacane Abbey and Thoronet Abbey , it is one of the "  three Provençal sisters  ", which bear witness to the great influence of the Cistercian order in Provence. A new small community of Cistercian monks came from Lérins in 1988 9 . In 2012 , there were ten of them living in Sénanque, the monastery remaining a dependency of the Abbey of Lérins. Today a priory of the Abbey of Lérins , the monastery, located in the valley where the Sénancole flows , is still occupied by a community of 6 Cistercian monks from the Cistercian Congregation of the Immaculate Conception.