Landévennec Abbey (French: Abbaye de Landévennec, Abbaye Saint-Guénolé de Landévennec) is a Benedictine monastery at Landévennec in Brittany, in the department of Finistère, France. The present monastery is a modern foundation at the site of an early mediaeval monastery, of which only ruins survive.
The abbey is traditionally held to have been founded around 490[1] by Saint Winwaloe (French: Guénolé). It became a Benedictine house in the eighth century. It was attacked and burned by Vikings in 913 and was subsequently rebuilt in stone.[2] [3]
The abbey was suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution and the goods and premises were sold off.
In 1950[4] the site was bought by the Benedictine community of Kerbénéat,[5] [6] who built new premises. The community formed part of the Subiaco Congregation, since 2013 the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation.