When the daughter monastery of Notre-Dame de Wisques was founded in 1889 by the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes (French name: Abbaye Sainte-Cécile de Solesmes) in Wisques (west of Saint-Omer), some of the monks of the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes (French name: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes) as spiritual advisors. The group founded the monastery of Saint-Paul de Wisques a short distance from the nunnery in the Small Castle, which in 1894 moved to the Large Castle (until then inhabited by the nuns) and was raised to the status of priory.
In 1901, before the Third Republic was hostile to monasteries, the monks moved to Honnay (Beauraing) in the Belgian province of Namur, from there to Montignies-Saint-Christophe (Erquelinnes) in the Belgian province of Hainaut, but finally to Oosterhout (near Breda) in the Netherlands. where the nuns of Notre-Dame de Wisques had already lodged. There they built the Oosterhout Monastery from 1907 to 1910, which became an abbey in 1910 (French: Abbaye Saint-Paul d'Oosterhout; Dutch: Sint-Paulusabdij) and existed there until 2006.
In 1919 some of the monks from Oosterhout returned to the Wisques monastery, which was then the priory of Oosterhout for a time, but was in turn made an abbey in 1928. In 2013, the aging convent was reinforced by 13 monks from Fontgombault Abbey. From 1966, the monk Henri-Marie Guilluy became the founder of a new congregation open to the disabled.
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