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St Mary, Woolhampton, Roman Catholic
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St Mary (part of Douai Abbey),
Woolhampton
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It was founded before 1693. Douai Abbey was founded in Paris in 1615, following the suppression of the English Benedictine abbeys by Henry VIII, 1436-1540, and after the death of the last Westminster Abbey monk in 1603. The Community survived in Paris until the French Revolution, when the resident Community was imprisoned, but freed in 1794. It then re-established itself in Douai, in northern France, in 1818, and was there for nearly a century until in 1903 it returned to England, to Woolhampton, taking over St Mary’s College, Woolhampton, where it survives until today.
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