The Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fidélité is a monastery of Benedictine nuns located in Jouques, near Aix-en-Provence. Founded in 1967 by the nuns from the Abbey of Saint-Louis du Temple of Limon, the convent became an autonomous priory in 1970, becoming an abbey in 1981. The growth of the community allowed them to found the abbey Notre-Dame de Miséricorde in Rosans in the diocese of Gap in 1991, and then the monastery Notre-Dame de l’Écoute in Benin (Pèporiyakou, diocese of Natitingou) in 2005. The third abbess of Jouques, Mother Marie Monique Guttin, was elected on August 3, 2017. As of 2020, the community in Jouques includes forty-five sisters aged 26 to 85.

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The Abbey of Sainte-Madeleine is a Catholic Benedictine monastery of traditionalist sensibility, located in Le Barroux, Vaucluse, France; it was founded in 1970 by Dom Gérard Calvet (+2008), in the former priory of La Madeleine (11th c.) in Bédoin, at the foot of Mont Ventoux, before the construction of the current abbey in Le Barroux and the consecration of the church in 1989 by Cardinal Gagnon. It is currently led by Dom Louis-Marie de Geyer d’Orth and has 58 monks. The abbey follows the pre-1969 Roman Missal (Tridentine Mass) and has been broadcasting its daily Divine Office online since several years. In 2002, eight monks were sent to found a new community at Saint-Pierre-de-Clairac, near Agen (Lot-et-Garonne), the Monastery of Sainte-Marie de la Garde, which has since been elevated to abbey status and currently numbers 19 monks.

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