Tournay Abbey

Notre-Dame de Tournay Abbey, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, is a Benedictine monastery nestled at the foot of the Pyrenees, about twenty kilometers east of Tarbes and thirty from Lourdes. Its community brings together twenty-two monks of the Order of Saint Benedict, several of whom came from Vietnam, Brazil, and Madagascar. Five times a day, they gather in the abbey church for the offices (Lauds, Mass, midday prayer, Vespers, Vigils), alongside personal prayer and lectio divina. The brothers also work in the confectionery workshop, where the famous coated fruit jellies and the pavé de Tournay are made.

Bordered by the quiet Arros river, which one crosses by a wooden bridge to leave the world behind, the abbey is a place of communion and solitude, of solidarity and stillness. Visitors come to find rest and the greenery of the harmonious Arros valley, welcomed warmly in an idyllic setting.