Prouilhe The Monastery of Notre-Dame de Prouilhe

In 1206 Saint Dominic, a canon from Castile preaching to the Cathars of the Lauragais, gathered at Prouilhe a community of women who had left the heresy. It was the first house of what grew into the Order of Preachers, and according to tradition Our Lady gave him the rosary there in 1208.

The medieval monastery was destroyed at the Revolution. Dominican nuns returned in 1880 and still live there, in a monastery and basilica rebuilt from the late 1850s on, below the hill of Fanjeaux.

• The basilicaWhere the nuns sing the Office.
• The SeignadouOn the hill of Fanjeaux above, where Dominic saw a sign of fire fall on Prouilhe.

• August 8Feast of Saint Dominic

• Saint DominicFounder of the Order of Preachers

• Via ImmaculataeThe Way of the Immaculate, ten daysDay VII, Cotignac to Prouilhe · Day VIII, Prouilhe to Lourdes
• Via DominiciThe Way of Saint Dominic, seven daysDay V, Prouilhe

About an hour by road from Toulouse.

• FanjeauxThe House of Saint Dominic, about 2 miles as the crow flies
• CarcassonneThe Basilica of Saint-Nazaire, about 15 miles as the crow flies
• ToulouseSaint-Sernin and the Jacobins, about 43 miles as the crow flies
• AlbiThe Cathedral of Sainte-Cécile, about 53 miles as the crow flies