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Origin and history

The Priory of La Roche-Morey is a former Conventual Priory founded in 1657 by Claude François Lulier, President of the Parliament of Dôle, to install Reformed Benedictine religious of the Congregation of Saint-Vanne and Saint-Hydulphus. This monastery, located in the department of Haute-Saône, reflects the religious architecture of the second half of the seventeenth century, marked by the monastic reforms of the period.

The church of the priory was destroyed after the French Revolution, when the monastery was sold as a national good in 1791. The remaining buildings, bought in 1843 by the Daughters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Saint-Loup, housed a boarding school for girls for more than 130 years. This change of vocation illustrates the adaptation of religious buildings to the educational and social needs of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Ranked as historical monuments in 1966, the priory now retains all its buildings, with the exception of a modern chapel. Its preservation bears witness to the heritage importance of religious buildings in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, despite the historical upheavals they have experienced. The site is currently managed by an association, thus perpetuating its role in local life.

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