A 3rd Century Egyptian hermit whose relics were brought to France from constantinople by a knight in the 11th Century, the establishment of an Almshouse and a dependency of the Benedictines, the foundation of the Order of the Hospital brothers of Saint Anthony or the Antonines in 1297 more than 700 years all these and other vagaries of history led to the founding of a prestigious abbey of international renown in the heart of the region which was to become the Dauphiné.