Orval Abbey

Orval Abbey is a Cistercian monastery based in 1132 in the Gaume location of Belgium and is positioned in Villers-devant-Orval, part of Florenville inside the province of Luxembourg. The abbey is widely known for its history and spiritual life but also for its neighborhood manufacturing of the Trappist beer Orval and a selected cheese. The site has been occupied because the Merovingian duration, and there may be evidence that there has been already a chapel here in the 10th century. In 1070, a set of Benedictine priests from Calabria settled right here, on the invitation of Arnould, Count of Chiny, and began creation of a church and a monastery, however after some forty years, probably because of the dying of Count Arnould, they moved away again.

They have been changed by a network of Canons Regular, who finished the construction paintings: the abbey church turned into consecrated on 30 September 1124. In 1132, a collection of Cistercian monks from Trois-Fontaines Abbey in Champagne arrived, and the two businesses shaped a single community within the Cistercian Order, under the primary abbot, Constantin. Around 1252, the monastery turned into destroyed by way of a fire; the rebuilding took round one hundred years.