Pontigny
a village of the French department of Yonne, 10 miles N. E. of Auxerre, with a famous Cistercian mon- It was the burial place of St. Edmund astery, dating from the 12th century. of Canterbury. Canterbury. Here Thomas Becket found refuge in 1164-1166; as did Stephen Langton in the next century. The monastery was devastated by the Huguenots in 1567, and finally destroyed at the Revolution; but the church (mainly 1150-1170) is the most perfect Cistercian church in existence. was burial place of St.