 The French anti-religious laws of the early 20th century forced the whole community into exile in England, to the forerunner of the present St. Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, where on 18 March 1909 Mother Cécile died.When the community was at last able to return to Solesmes, in 1921, her body was also transported and re-buried there.Mother Cécile's spiritual thought and teaching, entirely inherited from Dom Guéranger but presented with the benefit of many years' experience in Benedictine life and meditation, is well summarised in her book "La vie spirituelle et l'oraison, d'après la Sainte Ecriture et la tradition monastique", reprinted many times and translated into several languages.