Abbey of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif

The Abbey of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif in the Monasticon Gallicanum

Coordinates: 48°11′52″N 3°17′46″E / 48.19778°N 3.29611°E / 48.19778; 3.29611 The Abbey of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif (French: Abbaye de Saint-Pierre-le-Vif) was a Benedictine monastery in Sens, France, in the Archdiocese of Sens. It was founded by Theodechild, daughter of Theuderic I.^[1]

The first abbot of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif, Saint Ebbo, was bishop of Sens before 711. In 731 he led the people of Sens to compel the Saracens to lift their siege of the city.

Before the 9th century there was in the cemetery near the monastery a group of tombs, among which are those of the founders of the diocese and the first bishops, Savinian and Potentian. In 847, the transfer of their remains to the church of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif inspired popular devotion towards the two saints. In the middle of the 10th century their relics were hidden in a subterranean vault of the abbey to escape the pillage of the Hungarians, but in 1031 they were placed in a reliquary established by the writer Odorannus, a monk of the abbey.

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