sentences:  Initially it was the central house of the Congregation of Savigny, who were Benedictines; by 1150 it was Cistercian.It was situated on the confines of Normandy and Brittany.The founder was Vital de Mortain, Canon of the Collegiate Church of St. Evroul, who, resigning his prebend to embrace an eremitical life under Robert of Arbrissel in the forest of Craon (Anjou), and leaving the latter, retired to the forest of Savigny (1105), where he built a hermitage.