Shortly after Victor was found, a local abbot and biology professor, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, examined him.

"Are you thinking of your local abbot now?"

The local abbot brought his monks down through the marketplace, wooden swords in hand, to burlesque soldiers.

Considered by a local abbot as a very gifted boy, Peter Binsfeld was sent to Rome for study.

A local abbot would bring her the Eucharist daily.

The name is believed to be derived from that of the local abbot.

Ruled by local abbots until 1484, later it was under commendatary abbots.

With the counsel of a local abbot, he began a long period of penance.

Joan and her brother, along with the local abbot and monastery, arranged its endowment with local guilds.

The town's 12th century history was characterised by conflict between powerful local abbots and the Norman feudal overlords.