Murder
In 1891 the abbey was the scene of a notorious crime. On 28 October Father Ildefonse, the procurator, was found murdered and the valuables in his care stolen. The perpetrator was a novice, Brother Eugène, whose secular name was Matthias Hadelt, a native of Saarlouis, who was discovered to have committed many similar thefts from monasteries, and had murdered Father Ildefonse when he discovered him in the act of stealing. Hadelt was sentenced to death on 4 May 1892, and was guillotined at Valence on 5 July.
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