At 16:40 97-12-11 -0600, you wrote: >Friends, > >I have been asked to identify a monastery, thought to be Cistercian, called >"Vetera vinea" or "Vetus vinea". Can anyone help on this search? I've looked >in the Cottineau and in the Van der Meer Atlas and the closest I've come up >with is Vieuxville, a Cistercian monastery in Brittany. > >The monk identified as coming from this monastery bears the name, Caynardus. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thomas Sullivan, OSB > > >Dear Thomas. They are 2 cities in France named Viellevigne (the exact translation of vetus vinea?) , one is 60km N.-W from Carcassonne, the other is around 30 km South from Nantes. Claire Labrecque Un.Laval, Quebec. [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%