Purposes for the Sainte-Foys Abbey during the Romanesque Period:
Sainte Foy is a famous church in Conques, France. During the Romanesque period, art and architecture were developed as Gothic style. Also, people took pilgrimages to holy sites which means visiting a holy site is getting closer to the god.
Sainte-Foy church also a holy site was a monastery that helped monks to lived, worked and prayed. Because it was a monastery church in the route of Santiago de Compostela.
Also, it explained why people need to get close to the god via the carvings at the central port. That explains a scene of God's judgment, served as a reminder for the people about the torment in hell and joy in heaven.
And made hem to believe there was a door for the heaven and hell which means getting closer to god that let you go to heaven.