Paraclete

Peter Abelard founded the Benedictine Oratory of the Paraclete near Troyes, France, after he left the Abbey of St. Denis in about 1121.

In 1125 he was elected by the monks of the Abbey of St. Gildas, near Vannes, Brittany (then, France now), to be their abbot, so he turned the Paraclete over to Heloise, who had been in a convent in Argenteuil since taking the veil. She became the Paraclete's abbess and spent the rest of her life there. She and Abelard are buried together there.

Paraclete comes from a Greek word meaning "one who consoles" and is found in the New Testament (John 16:7) as a name for the Holy Spirit, for the major Christian denominations the third person of the Holy Trinity.