Mister Victor Provôt, mayor of Thiron-Gardais and President of the Order of Tiron’s Association, and Mister Stephane Bern, honourable member of the association.
The historical association of the Order of Tiron was organised around the memorie of the Order of Tiron and its mother abbey, from which some ruins still exist today. This site knew a valorisation in the last few years, notably thanks to Stephan Bern’s involvement, who became the owner of the Royal and Military College of Thiron-Gardais, attached to the abbey’s church, chich has could open its doors to the public.
Our missions
- To contact the owners of the 120 old outbuildings in France, in England, in Scotland and in Ireland (Norway and Germany) to research, to collect and to showcase the historical informations about those sites and their connection with the mother abbey. For this, we organise a study trip each year.
- To organise, in 2014, the 900th anniversary of the abbey’s foundation, with the first manifestation which gathered the Order’s outbuildings, at the Pentecost, as the religious used to organise in the past. This event has to reinforce the collaboration beetween all those anciant sites.
- To entertain and developp an european network of the Order’s outbuildings to promote tourism around this heritage on a local scale, even on national and international. This work needs some tools, mediation and communication like this website and a free application allowing to present this unusual and often inaccessible heritage, because private.
- To get involved in the orchard’s preservation, of which the association is the godmother : 50 fruit trees were planted in 2011 at the abbey’s walls. It is planned to install some beehives, some houses for insects, for birds and to plant various varieties of cormiers and wickerwork.
Our vidéos
Our next events
1st week-end of June 2021: meeting in the gardens
26th and 27th of June 2021: Heritage’s Country Day, opening of a photos exhibition and general assembly of the association
18th and 19th of September 2021: European Heritage Days
Sunday the 17th of October 2021: Fall’s Festival in the abbey’s gardens, association’s apple juice manufacture and selling
From the 3rd to the 6th of June 2021: Cel’Tiron Pentecost Festival
Our articles
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Nowadays, the heritage of Tiron-Gardais is still rich, full of the Tironenscian Order's memories. Around its mother abbey were born more than one hundred monastic houses on the lands of France and overseas. But who is at origins of this...
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