West facade of the former Benedictine monastery church in Marmoutier in Alsace. France. Now serves as the village's parish church. The first foundatio

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West facade of the former Benedictine monastery church in Marmoutier in Alsace. France. Now serves as the village's parish church. The first foundation here, either around 590, was a community of Irish monks under the Rule of St. Columbanus.

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