Country France Department Isère Time zone CET (UTC+1) Population 910 (1999) Arrondissement Grenoble | Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Canton Le Sud Grésivaudan Area 22.21 km² Local time Tuesday 5:03 PM | |
Intercommunality Pays de Saint-Marcellin Weather 20°C, Wind N at 5 km/h, 33% Humidity | ||
Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, also Saint-Antoine-en-Viennois, is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. On 31 December 2015, the former commune of Dionay was merged into Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye.
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Map of 38160 Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, France
Formerly known as La-Motte-Saint-Didier, it was renamed after becoming the home of purported relics of Saint Anthony the Great in the 11th century, and shortly afterwards of the original house of the Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony, founded here in 1095 as the result of miraculous cures from St. Anthony's Fire ascribed to the relics.
It was set up as a Benedictine community, whose monks cared for the shrine and the relics, while the Brothers cared for those suffering from the then common malady of St. Anthony's Fire. Over the course of the next two centuries, disputes between the Antonines and the Benedictines arose repeatedly. Finally, the Antonines were formed into an Order of canons regular in 1297. At that time the Benedictine monks were removed from the shrine, which was entrusted to the Antonines.
Twin towns
Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye is twinned with: