It has many other names, "church", "abbey", or (in a document of 1211) "the converted ladies living the religious life by the Church of Sainte-Marie of Prouille". Dominic himself placed a special importance on the enclosure of women, yet it was not until 1294, many years after his death, that Prouille became a fully enclosed house. From that date onwards its nuns are described in documents as sorores inclusae, "enclosed sisters". The monastery was so thoroughly razed during the French Revolution that only one arch keystone remains. Its triumphal rebuilding was a personal project of Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, who was the catalyst of the return of the banned Dominicans to France under the French Second Empire; Prouille and the origin of the Rosary Histories of the Holy Rosary often attribute its origin to St. Dominic, inspired by a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Prouille. Our Lady of the Rosary is the title received by the reported Marian apparition to Saint Dominic in 1208 in the Church of Prouille, in which the Virgin Mary gave the rosary to him. Notes Bibliography Cartulaire de Notre-Dame de Prouille ed. Jean Guiraud. Paris: Picard, 1907. M.-H. Vicaire, Saint Dominic and his times; translated by Kathleen Pond. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1964. M.-H. Vicaire, "La naissance de Sainte-Marie de Prouille" in Pierre Mandonnet, Saint Dominique: l'idée, l'homme et l'oeuvre (Paris: Desclée De Brouwer, 1938) vol. 1 pp. 99–114. 1206 establishments in Europe 1200s establishments in France Christian monasteries established in the 13th century Dominican monasteries of nuns Dominican monasteries in France Christian monasteries in Aude Tourist attractions in Aude Monasteries destroyed during the French Revolution Convents of the Catholic Church in Europe 13th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in France