Clairvaux
Clairvaux
Former Cistercian abbey , department of Aube, France , founded in 1115 by Saint Bernard , as a branch of Citeaux, it sent out many colonies of monks who formed other monasteries . Blessed Bernardo Pignatelli, later Pope Eugene III, was a monk of Clairvaux. In the French Revolution the property was confiscated, and since then the abbey buildings have been used for a penitentiary.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Clairvaux
(CLARAVALLIS), the name of a celebrated Cistercian abbey, in a valley of the Department Aube, in France. Bernard became its abbot in 1115, and the monastery was the model of monasticism in the 12th and 13th centuries. Neander, Ch. History, 4, 254. SEE BERNARD; SEE CISTERCIANS.