En Calcat - Abbaye Sainte Scholastique

After the break at the Abbaye Saint Benoît I continued west - and after only 500 meters entered Abbaye Sainte Scholastique. The combination of a Benedictine monasteries and a Benedictine nunnery was pretty common in history.
Cluny was a double monastery, St. Ulrich founded by Ulrich of Cluny in the Black Forest had the nunnery in Bollschweil and Einsiedeln in Switzerland was a double monastery as well. Here is the combination of an abbey dedicated to St. Benedict (Benoit) and one for Scholastica (Scholastique).

Scholastica was Benedicts sister - and both meanwhile are a bit disputed. Few historians claim, that they are not historic persons, but idealistic role-models. One of the authors supporting this is Herbert Illig, creator of the "Phantom time hypothesis", a conspiracy theory proposing that the Early Middle Ages (614–911) did not exist. Never existed. All is misrepresentation, misinterpretation and forgery..... Thinking about Benedict and Scholastica, I entered the abbey to ask for a "tampon" - but I ended up in a kind of labyrinth. There were locked doors and long hallways, but no persons. But that may be as well a misinterpretation, as the nuns do have a website

benedictines-dourgne.org/