Q: Given a question and a context passage, generate the answer having the word or phrase from the context passage. Here, the answer should be a shortest continous span from the passage.
Context: Val Abbey (Abbey of St Mary of Val) (Abbaye Notre-Dame du Val) was a Cistercian abbey in Meriel and Villiers-Adam in Val-d'Oise, 30 kilometers north of Paris.
Question: To which religious order did Val Abbey belong?
A:
cistercian