pontigny

Updated: July 28, 2026

Here, as he had done at Pontigny, Becket led the solitary and mortified life of a recluse. Withdrawing himself from company and amusements, he divided the whole of his time between prayer and reading.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 : (From Barbarossa to Dante)

At length he retired to the Cistercian Abbey at Pontigny, which had formerly sheltered Becket and Langton, in despair at the condition of England and of her Church.

Hartley Withers - The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] : A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See