Waulsort Abbey (french: Abbaye de Waulsort) was a

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monastery located at

Waulsort Waulsort ( wa, Åssôrt) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Hastière, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. Until the reorganisation of the Municipalities of Belgium 1977, Waulsort was a municipality in its own r ...

Wallonia Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, Waals gewest; wa, link=no, Redjon walone is one of the three regions of Belgium—alo ...

, now in

Hastière Hastière (; wa, Astire) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 5,230 inhabitants. The total area is , giving a population density of 93 inhabitants per square kilometre. ...

in the

province of Namur Namur (; nl, Namen ; wa, Nameur) is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders (clockwise from the West) on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and the French depart ...

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. The monastery was founded in 946 by Irish monks.

Saint Maccallin Saint Macculind (or Macallan, MacCuilinn, Macculin Dus, Maculinus; died c. 496) was an early Irish saint who was abbot or bishop of Lusk. Life John O'Hanlon notes in his ''Lives of the Irish saints'' (1873), "Much confusion exists in the docume ...

and Saint Cathróe were the first two abbots.

Saint Forannan Forannan, fl. c. 969, was Bishop of Donoughmore. His clan held the plain of Magh Feimhin, near Clonmel. Forannan was chosen bishop by popular election, and consecrated, according to his 'Life,' in 'the city called in the barbarous dialect of the I ...

(d. 980) was also subsequently abbot of Waulsort.Namur
Catholic Encyclopedia, accessed 8 June 2010 The abbey was dissolved during the

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in 1793, when it was sacked. The surviving structures have been remodelled as a private house. The former abbey is principally known as the owner, from the 10th to the 18th century, of the

Lothair Crystal The Lothair Crystal (also known as the Lothar Crystal or the Susanna Crystal) is an engraved gem from Lotharingia in northwest Europe, showing scenes of the biblical story of Susanna, dating from 855–869. The Lothair Crystal is an object in t ...

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Christian monasteries in Namur (province) Benedictine monasteries in Belgium {{Christian-monastery-stub