Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye

Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye

Abbey church

Coat of arms
Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye

Coordinates: 45°10′33″N 5°13′02″E / 45.1758°N 5.2172°E / 45.1758; 5.2172Coordinates: 45°10′33″N 5°13′02″E / 45.1758°N 5.2172°E / 45.1758; 5.2172
Country France
Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Isère
Arrondissement Grenoble
Canton Le Sud Grésivaudan
Intercommunality Pays de Saint-Marcellin
Government
  Mayor (20142020) Marie-Chantal Jolland
Area1 36.22 km2 (13.98 sq mi)
Population (2013)2 1,172
  Density 32/km2 (84/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 38359 / 38160
Elevation 274–578 m (899–1,896 ft)
(avg. 365 m or 1,198 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, also Saint-Antoine-en-Viennois, is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. On 31 December 2015, the former commune of Dionay was merged into Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye.[1]

Formerly known as La-Motte-Saint-Didier, it was renamed after becoming the home of purported relics of Saint Anthony the Great in the 11th century, and shortly afterwards of the original house of the Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony, founded here in 1095 as the result of miraculous cures from St. Anthony's Fire ascribed to the relics.

It was set up as a Benedictine community, whose monks cared for the shrine and the relics, while the Brothers cared for those suffering from the then common malady of St. Anthony's Fire. Over the course of the next two centuries, disputes between the Antonines and the Benedictines arose repeatedly. Finally, the Antonines were formed into an Order of canons regular in 1297. At that time the Benedictine monks were removed from the shrine, which was entrusted to the Antonines.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
17931,620    
18061,731+6.9%
18211,713−1.0%
18312,007+17.2%
18412,020+0.6%
18511,880−6.9%
18611,909+1.5%
18721,814−5.0%
18811,624−10.5%
18911,621−0.2%
19011,659+2.3%
19111,520−8.4%
19211,252−17.6%
19311,226−2.1%
19461,035−15.6%
19541,013−2.1%
1962913−9.9%
1968840−8.0%
1975766−8.8%
1982779+1.7%
1990873+12.1%
1999910+4.2%
2006959+5.4%
20111,032+7.6%

Twin towns

Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye is twinned with:

See also

References

  1. Arrêté préfectoral 30 September 2015
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