Benedictine Abbey, in the Diocese of Poitiers, France, founded
around 360 by St. Martin of Tours Liguge, a Benedictine Abbey,
in the Diocese of Poitiers, France, was founded about the year
A.D. 360, by St. Martin of Tours. The miracles and reputation of
the holy founder attracted a large number of disciples to the
new monastery. When however, St. Martin became Bishop of Tours
and established the monastery of Marmoutiers a short distance
from that city, the fame of Liguge declined considerably. Among
St. Martin's successors as abbots of Liguge may be mentioned St.
Savin, who resigned the post of abbot to become a hermit, and
Abbot Ursinus, during whose reign the monk Defensor compiled the
well-known "Scintillarum Liber" printed in P.L., LXXXVIII. The
Saracenic invasion, the wars of the dukes of Aquitaine and the
early Carlovingians, and lastly the Norman invasion were a
series of disasters that almost destroyed the monastery. By the
eleventh century it had sunk to the position of a dependent
priory attached to