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.
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