About Abbey of Saint Vincent, Laon
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The Abbey of St. Vincent, Laon (French: Abbaye Saint-Vincent de Laon) was a Benedictine monastery in Laon, Picardy, northern France. It was founded in c. 580 and initially followed the Rule of St. Columbanus, adopting the Rule of St. Benedict in 948.
In November 882, after the monks had been decimated by the Viking invaders, the abbey was sacked, pillaged, burned and ruined.
A 13th-century wall painting to the left of the altar was discovered in 1769 by Canon Villette (archdeacon of the church of Laon) showing three generations of the chevaliers d'Eppes (Jehan died in 1273, a younger Jehan who died in 1293, and a third family member with no epitaph).
