Dijon

Dijon is the largest city in the eastern French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is the capital of Burgundy and is at the heart of the Burgundy vineyards. Dijon is one of France's most appealing cities and twenty years after the death of Saint Teresa of Avila, Dijon was the third foundation of the Spanish Carmelites in France in 1605. Dispersed by the Revolution in 1792, the Carmel was rebuilt in 1865.

It was in this new monastery that Elizabeth CATEZ entered on 2 August 1901. But she died there five years later of Addison's disease.

When her father died, the family shifted near the Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Dijon. The sound of the bells of the convent and the nuns' garden attracted the young Elizabeth. St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, young prophet of the Presence of God (1880-1906), was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1984, and canonized by Pope Francis in 2016.

But because of various constraints, the Carmelites were forced to leave the city of Dijon. In 1979 the monastery was transferred to a silent hill, near the village of Flavignerot, 13 km south-west of Dijon.