Monastère Saint-Benoît de Brignoles, Benedictine monastery in Brignoles, France

Monastère Saint-Benoît de Brignoles occupies an L-shaped set of stone buildings listed as historical monuments since 21 December 1984. The pale, irregular masonry facade has small rectangular openings and a low terracotta-tiled roof with a short chimney; on the right, a taller stone section with a shuttered window rises above the roofline, next to a lower rounded apse-like structure. The church, of Romanesque origin, was given its medieval dedication to Saint Christopher.

A family from Rians built the Romanesque church in the early 11th century and gave it to the Abbey of Saint-Victor de Marseille in 1025. The Templars acquired it in the 12th century and enlarged the domain, naming it Saint-Christophe for pilgrims on the Via Aurelia. In 1312 it passed to the Hospitallers of Saint John, and in 2020 an English-speaking Benedictine community moved in.

The monks celebrate the offices in the Tridentine rite, using the 1953 Roman Missal during Holy Week. The church carries its medieval dedication to Saint Christopher, while the community is dedicated to Saint Benedict of Nursia. The monastery holds relics, including those of Blessed Notker the Stammerer and Saint Lambert of Maastricht.

The monastery lies in the commune of Brignoles, about 46 km from Toulon, and the monks receive a steady stream of vocation visitors, so guest accommodation is a stated concern. The buildings in an L-shaped plan were listed as historical monuments on 21 December 1984. Restoration work on the heritage buildings is under way.

The monastery holds relics of Blessed Notker the Stammerer and Saint Lambert of Maastricht. Its prior, Australian Dom Alcuin Reid, was ordained priest clandestinely outside France in April 2022, prompting Bishop Dominique Rey to suspend him and, on 10 June 2022, to suppress the public association of the faithful.