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Malonne would have been founded around the year 600, or at least it's at this date that it enters history. Its founder, Saint-Berthuin, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop (probably Irish). Legend says an angel visited him in his dreams, and asked him to leave all his goods behind and establish a village
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Malonne is a village composed of many neighborhoods and localities, more or less distant from one another and sometimes separated by woods (which cover 27% of the village's surface). The main church, the old abbey, the current tomb of
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period. In exchange for poor or hard-to-defend lands, the mighty ensured good relations with the Church both on earth and -hopefully- in the heavens. The
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