Monks from Le Barroux to guarantee a Trappist abbey's future ... as traditionalists

The arrangement isn't framed as a formal merger of institutions but as a handover: About 12 monks from Le Barroux will relocate to Bellefontaine Abbey (OSCO) in spring 2026, thus giving the aged Trappist monks the privilege of dying in their home abbey while it shifts to a new observance, namely Benedictine traditionalist practices.
This fits a broader pattern where traditionalist Benedictine abbeys are reviving declining houses, attracting younger vocations amid the overall decline in French monasticism.