page_title: Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas
section_title: Recent years
hierarchical_section_title: Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas / History / Recent years
caption_attribution_description: English: Chapel of the trappist monastery Notre-Dame de l'Atlas, Midelt, Morocco. The cross is coming from the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria. Français&#160;: Choeur de la chapelle du prieuré Notre-Dame de l'Atlas, Midelt, Maroc. La croix provient du monastère de Tibhirine.
context_page_description: The Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas is a Roman Catholic monastery of Trappists, inaugurated on March 7, 1938 in Tibhirine, close to Médéa, in Algeria.
  The abbey became more known in 1996, when seven monks were kidnapped from the monastery, during the Algerian Civil War, and were killed. The movie Of Gods and Men, released in 2010, tells the events that led to their deaths.
context_section_description: The surviving two monks of Atlas Priory, Father Jean-Pierre and Father Amédée, moved to the monastery annex in Fez, Morocco, leaving the Tibhirine location abandoned. The Abbot General of the Trappist Order, Dom Bernardo Olivera, O.C.S.O, wrote “After the departure – which we hope is only temporary – of all the monks from Tibhirine, your community of Fez in Morocco can no longer be looked upon as a simple annex house of Tibhirine. You constitute the community of Our Lady of Atlas, and therefore are an autonomous Major Priory.” The monks left the Fez location in March 2000 and moved into a new monastery near Midelt, Morocco, in buildings previously occupied by members of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
  In 2006, there were four monks at the Priory of Our Lady of the Atlas: Father Amédée, 85, Father Jean-Pierre, 82, Brother Louis, 81, and the Prior, Dom Jean-Pierre II, 55.
  In 2016, the monastery was turned over to Chemin Neuf Community, a Roman Catholic community originally from Lyon, France.
caption: Chapel of the Priory of Our Lady of Atlas, Midelt, Morocco.
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