Origins

A thousand years after William.

Born in 1027 in Falaise and died on 9 September 1087 in Rouen, William the Conqueror granted, shortly before his death, the Priory of Saint Léonard of Vains to the Abbaye aux Hommes in Caen. Nine centuries later, the PRESENCE programme — at the origin of the FEASTS OF SAINT LÉONARD within MILLENIUM — makes this memory tangible, living, shared through art, spirituality, transmission (heritage, medieval traditions…) and encounter.