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The Abbey of St Vaast ( French: Abbaye de Saint-Vaast) was a Benedictine monastery situated in Arras, département of Pas-de-Calais, France . History. The abbey was founded in 667. Saint Vedast, or Vaast (c. 453–540) was the first Bishop of Arras and was buried in the old cathedral at Arras.
Former Benedictine abbey in the town and Diocese of Arras, France (Latin, S. Vedastus Atrebatensis ). Founded in 667 by Bishop Aubert to serve the funeral chapel of St. vedast, it received large donations from King Thierry III, who also made it a royal abbey exempt from episcopal jurisdiction.
Closed on Tuesdays and on 1st January, 1st May, 1st November and 25th December. Housed within the former Saint-Vaast Abbey, the Arras Museum of Fine Arts offers a fine display of masterpieces dating from the Medieval period up to the mid-nineteenth century.
Saint Vedast, or Vaast (c. 453–540) was the first bishop of Arras and later also bishop of Cambrai, and was buried in the old cathedral at Arras. In 667 Saint Auburt, seventh bishop of Arras, began to build an abbey for Benedictine monks on the site of a ...
Abbey Church of Saint-Vaast. The church of the former St. Vaast's Abbey was rebuilt beginning in 1750 in neoclassical style. The design was chosen by the former abbot of St. Vaast's, the Cardinal de Rohan, and is of remarkable simplicity.
The Saint-Vaast abbey is located at Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais. It was founded in the 7th century on the hill of La Madeleine where the future Saint Vaast, former religious tutor of King Clovis, liked to withdraw.
This Abbey of St-Vaast flourished for many centuries and held an important position amongst the monasteries of the Low Countries. It was ruled by many distinguished abbots, a list of whom, numbering seventy-nine, is given in “Gallia christiana.”
