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In the winter of 1814 Jan-Baptist Victoor (married to the widow of J.F. Lebbe) left the town of Poperinge to settle in the forest of Sint-Sixtus to spend the rest of his life as a hermit. In earlier times and only a few hundred meters from his new hermitage there used to be two monastic communities there: from 1260 until 1355 the so-called ‘sisters of the house of Sint Sixtus’ and from 1615 until 1784 a community of monks of the Birgitine order.

When in the summer of 1831 the prior of the recently founded monastry of Catsberg and a few of his monks joined the hermit, a new Cistercian abbey was born.

The foundational years of this Cistercian establishment (1831-1836) were difficult. Nevertheless there was a steady growth of the community. There were 23 member in 1835 and 52 in 1875.

Twice the community released monks: in 1850 16 brothers went to Scourmont to found a daughter house and, during the years 1858-1860, around twenty brothers were sent to Canada to induce new life in the flagging monastery of Tracady (the contemporay Spence in the U.S.).

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