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Ads by Google      Abbey of Cluny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cluny spread the custom of veneration of the king as patron and support of the Church, and in turn the spiritual outlook and conduct of 11th century kings underwent a change. Cluny was not known for its severity or asceticism, nor for embracing apostolic poverty, but the abbots of Cluny supported the revival of the papacy and the reforms of Pope Gregory VII that led to unprecedented papal authority. As the head of their order was the Abbot at Cluny all English Cluniacs were bound to cross to France to Cluny to consult or be consulted unless the Abbot chose to come to England: This he did five times in the 13th century, and only twice in the 14th. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluniac_Order   (1860 words)      Cluny The first church, known as Cluny I, was consecrated in 915. Even as a congregation Cluny was absorbed by the congregation of St. Maur (1634-44) and subsequently into that of St. Vanne. A huge fresco of Christ in Glory gazed down from the apse and the church was filled with superb sculptures of which a few capitals representing the virtues, the Seasons, and the "tones" of Gregorian chant are all that remain. http://www.sspx.ca/Angelus/2002_December/Cluny.htm   (2354 words)      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Congregation of Cluny The abbey-church of Cluny was on a scale commensurate with the greatness of the congregation, and was regarded as one of the wonders of the Middle Ages. Under the last named, the ninth abbot, who ruled from 1122 to 1156, Cluny reached the zenith of its influence and prosperity, at which time it was second only to Rome as the chief centre of the Christian world. The spirit and organization of the congregation was a distinct departure from the Benedictine tradition, though its monks continued all along to be recognized as members of the Benedictine family. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04073a.htm   (1234 words)      Lecture 5 9.30 Abbey organized according to Benedictine ideals, creating a complex of church and support facilities. The layout of the church set the precedent for Romanesque pilgrimage churches. http://online.caup.washington.edu/courses/Arch351/Assets/Slides/Lecture05.gallery/source/abbey_of_cluny_ii__plan.html   (26 words)      Cluniac order on Encyclopedia.com Cluny stoutly supported the popes (and was itself under papal protection) and served vitally in the great reform program of Pope Gregory VII. With its independence thus guaranteed, Cluny became the fountainhead of the most far-reaching religious reform movement in the Middle Ages. Many Cluniac monks became bishops and through provincial synods were thus able to spread reform in church life throughout Europe. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/Cluniaco.asp   (523 words)      WTS = Great Moments In Catholic History Cluny had succeeded in joining profound spirituality and broad culture. They had reached "so high a stage of honour and religion," he thought, ''that without doubt Cluny surpassed all other monasteries, even the most ancient.'' Just as Christ on the Cross had committed His mother to the beloved disciple John, so now he, Christ's vicar, would commit the Church to their care. It was the chief centre of religious influence in Europe. http://home.golden.net/~wts/words/greatmoments/GM08.html   (611 words)      "The Monks of Cluny" It was at Cluny in Burgundy that one of the first and greatest attempts at monastic revival and reformation was undertaken, under Berno and Odo, two of the great founders of the house. Secondly, the monks of Cluny laid hold of a great truth when they said that in worship the very best must be given to God, that nothing can be too fine or costly or beautiful for His praise and service. In Cluny he found something different, a spiritual atmosphere such as his nature craved for, devotion to duty, purity of life, deep and intense piety, and an orderly round of unremitted services and Masses, the “Opus Die” in all its glory and fullness. http://www.maybole.org/history/crossraguel/monks.htm   (3146 words)      Untitled Like Lefèvre-Pontalis, Virey held that the 999 donation of Paray to Cluny resulted in the relocation of the establishment to the Bourbince in time for the dedication of a new church there in 1004.(Note 29) Also like Lefèvre-Pontalis, he saw the porch and the main body of the church as belonging to two separate epochs. In his view, this physical evidence suggested that the relationship between Cluny III and Paray was so close that the same monk must have been architect for both. Like the elder Oursel, they believed that the priory church was an exact replica of Cluny III.(Note 54) Claiming to accept Virey's chronology, the younger Oursels maintained that the analysis of the 1926 Petite monographie was the definitive one. http://www.reed.edu/~mkerr/papers/thesis/prev.html   (4474 words)      France - Cluny Hugh, who brought the Catholic Church to a position of influence beyond the hopes of the notable churchmen of ten centuries, was one of the early abbots. But Cluny has followed the path of the kings. That there should be in all the world a woman like that !" http://www.oldandsold.com/articles07/burgundy-10.shtml   (2978 words)      Reading Abbey The House of Commons met in the Chapter House and the Lords in the Refrectory, often when they were pushed out of London by the threat of plague. On one of three such occasions, the Commons met in the Chapter House, and the Lords in the Refectory. He remained a Reading monk for the rest of his life. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/reading_abbey.htm   (850 words)      Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 29 Hugh assisted Pope Nicholas II in drawing up the decree on papal elections at a council in Rome in 1059 and continued in close relationship with the Holy See when Hildebrand, who had been a monk at Cluny, was elected pope as Gregory VII. This saint's feast is attested in the Calendar of Winchcombe and later martyrologies, though he does not seem to have had a widespread or popular cultus (Attwater2, Benedictines, Encyclopedia, Farmer). In the 10th century, two different groups claim to have taken the relics of Saint Wilfrid the Great from Ripon; most likely one party took those of Wilfrid the Younger. http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0429.htm   (4201 words)      Abbey When the annexed ground-plan was taken, shortly before its destruction, nearly all the monastery, with the exception of the church, had been rebuilt. The earliest Christian monastic communities (see MONASTICISM) with which we are acquainted consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common centre, which was usually the abode of some anchorite celebrated for superior holiness or singular asceticism. The cloister and monastic buildings lay to the south side of the church. http://webpages.charter.net/BrianOtte/encyclopedia_project/a/abbey.html   (6145 words)      Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of October 16 Saint Gall studied at Bangor under Saints Comgall and Columban(us), became versed in Scripture, and was ordained. He did so, but after another seven years, he returned to Cluny; then he lived for a time as a recluse near Toulouse. After about seven years, Gregory VII ordered him to go to Spain to preach to the Moors. http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1016.htm   (3559 words)      Hugh of Cluny and the Age of Chivalry This was a classic power struggle between kings and clerics and although the Church claimed victory, and that Gregory "deposed" Henry for his disobedience, and that Henry kneeled in penitence at Canossa, he outlived the pope by 23 years and behaved as if none of this took place. Hugh is recognized as the force, or at least the brain, behind the reformist zeal exercised like a blunt instrument by his friend and contemporary Pope Gregory VII &; know in the Catholic Church as St. Gregory the Great. This is the feast-day of the Abbot of Cluny known to the Catholic Church as St. Hugh the Great. http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/0429almanac.htm   (457 words)      Sounds True The hymns and sequences that reverberated through the abbey eight times a day in the singing of the Office of Hours were also heard in the infirmary, where monks at the threshold of death were comforted with song and prayer. Working within palliative medicine, the teams focus on the alleviation of both physical and spiritual pain, mirroring the monks of Cluny who also attended to" care of the body, and cure of the soul" in their work. This monastic medicine embraced prayer, science, art, and devotion to beauty, including the use of music. http://www.altered-states.net/soundstrue/chalice_of_repose_video.html   (383 words)      Burgundy, with Dijon Travel Guide Fodor's Online Yet the Capetians in their acquisitions couldn't hold a candle to the "light of the world": the great Abbaye de Cluny, founded in 910, grew to such overweening ecclesiastical power that it dominated the European Church on a papal scale for some four centuries. In nearby Clairvaux, St-Bernard himself vented his outrage, chiding the monks who, although sworn to chastity and poverty, kept mistresses, teams of horses, and a library of unfathomable depth that codified classical and Eastern lore for all posterity -- that is, until it was destroyed in the Wars of Religion. " And like the Italian popes, Cluny, too, indulged a weakness for worldly luxury and knowledge, both sacred and profane. http://fodors.com/miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=burgundy_dijon@39&...   (731 words)      Cluny - City of Art and History Until the 16th century, when Saint Peter's of Rome was built, Cluny was the largest church in the Christian World. The church's artistic influence spread throughout medieval Christendom. The Benedictine Cluny Abbey, founded in 909 and dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul, was the largest spiritual centre in the Christian world at the end of the 11th century. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/richez/Burgundy/Clunye.htm   (959 words)      Odo of Cluny: Information From Answers.com 878 - 18 November, 942), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was the second abbot of Cluny. Odo of Cluny is mentioned in the following topics: Odo followed him to Cluny, bringing his library; there he became abbot on Berno's death in 927. http://www.answers.com/topic/odo-of-cluny   (372 words)      MC Journal: the Journal of Academic Media Librarianship. Audiovisual Reviews. The narrator fails to explain any of the Cluny agricultural advances, but instead, we are left to assume that the monks had something to do with the plow. At its zenith it had about 1,400 priories under its control, and answered to no one but the pope. Cluny: A Light in the Night provides an introduction and broad overview of the socio-economic, architectural, political, and religious aspects and influences of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny during the Middle Ages. http://wings.buffalo.edu/mcjreview/930077892.html   (461 words)      Countrybookshop.co.uk - Cluny from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries The articles in this volume deal with the history of the abbey of Cluny, both its relations with the outside world and its internal organization and spirituality, from its foundation in 910, until the end of the 12th century. Cluny from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries Countrybookshop.co.uk - Cluny from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries http://www.countrybookshop.co.uk/books/index.phtml?whatfor=0860788156   (245 words)      New Catholic Dictionary: Cluny It played an important part in the Church reform of the 11th century, and reached the zenith of its glory in the 12th century, when it is said the congregation had 2,000 monasteries. Celebrated Benedictine monastery, founded in 909 by William, Duke of Aquitaine, in Cluny, Saone-et-Loire, France, which became the mother-house of a vast group of monasteries forming the Congregation of Cluny. After the suppression of the monastery, 1790, it was bought by the town and practically razed to the ground. http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/ncd02128.htm   (173 words)      Medieval Sourcebook: Foundation Charter of Cluny, 910 As well as providing some basis for Cluny's later power and independence, the charter is an example of why donations were made to the Church. To all right thinkers it is clear that the providence of God has so provided for certain rich men that, by means of their transitory possessions, if they use them well, they may be able to merit everlasting rewards. The founding of the abbey of Cluny in 910 marked the onset of this period. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chart-cluny.html   (669 words)      In Search of Cluny It also tells the story of the men involved in this vast enterprise, individuals of exceptional determination and single-mindedness, whose faith co-existed with extraordinary political acumen. : In Search of Cluny: God's Lost Empire The abbots of Cluny were among the most formidable men of their day; they were friends and advisers to successive popes and Holy Roman Emperors, as well as to the kings of England, France and Spain. http://www.signalbooks.co.uk/books/cluny.htm   (384 words)      Cluny But this was a good place to explain it. I suggest another superb book about Odette Arpin's work: "Cluny de For us Odette Arpin is the Queen of Cluny, as she works it perfectly! http://lace.lacefairy.com/International/Cluny.html   (213 words)      THE FOUNDATION CHARTER OF THE ORDER OF CLUNY From the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny arose a reform movement in the Western Church that both struggled against abuses and changed the clergy and government of the Church. The Cluniacs opposed the buying of Church offices (simony), a married clergy, and the lay intervention in the election of the hierarchy. ORDER OF [Excerpted from Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages, Ernest F. Henderson, ed. http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Cluny.html   (856 words)      Romanesque Art & Architecture Abbey Church of St. Pierre, Moissac, France: St. Peter Abbey Church of St. Michael, Hildesheim/ St. Philibert, Tournus/ St-Sernin, Toulouse/ St-Sernin: Ambulatory Sculpture/ Abbey Church, Cluny/ Abbey Church St. Pierre, Moissac/ Trumeau from St. Pierre, Moissac/ St. 1088-1118, Abbey Church, S. transept ("Tower of the Blessed Water"), view from NW.. http://www.oberlin.edu/staff/jromano/images/rmsq.html   (405 words)      Father Alban Buter: Lives of the Saints: Odo of Cluny From his childhood the saint was much given to prayer, and piety made him regret the time that he threw away in hunting and other amusements and exercises of a court life. See the life of Saint Odo, written by John, his disciple, extant in the library of Cluny, published by Marrier, and Duchesne: also in Mabillon, with other pieces relating to the history of this saint, Saec. Upon his death, in 927, the bishops of that country established Saint Odo abbot of three of those monasteries, namely, Cluny, Massay, and Deols. http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sto26001.htm   (651 words)      Redwall - The Adventure Begins DVD Danger stalks the peaceful world of Redwall as the inhabitants prepare for the great Jubilee feast. Cluny the Scourge, the most evil and savage bilge rat of all, has come with his rodent horde to conquer and destroy. War erupts, shattering peace that has reigned since Martin the Warrior laid down his mighty sword generations earlier. http://www.videoflicks.com/TITLES/9990/9990093.HTM?SHOW=1&TYPE=0&ASSN=V00001'   (198 words)      Cluny : light of the Mediaeval World A very good idea of what Cluny and its vanished church must once have looked like may be obtained from the computer-generated images of the church. The abbey was also well served by the strength of character and the longevity of its first six abbots, the last of whom, Hugh, a native of Semur-en-Brionnais, was instrumental in rebuilding the abbey church which was to remain the largest abbey church in Christendom until the 16C. At the height of its power, the abbey commanded over ten thousand monks living in more than a thousand religious centres stretching from England to Italy and from the Iberian Peninsula to the depths of Germany. http://www.burgundy-tourism.com/patrimoine/cluny_.htm   (607 words)      Abbey of Cîteaux (Abbaye de Cîteaux) - Americans in France As it was here that that Order, also called the Order of Cîteaux, was founded, as offshoot of Cluny, for those who wanted to live strictly by the rules of St. Benedict. Almost nothing remains of the original Abbey, what dose can be found in the library. Resource for people that would like to live or travel in France. http://www.americansinfrance.net/Attractions/Abbaye_de_Citeaux.cfm   (164 words)      The Spirit and the Soil: Muenster via Cluny The monks celebrated the first Mass in the vicinity of Muenster on May 21,1903, feast of the Ascension. Benedictine monks were involved in the settling of this area from the beginning. Under the leadership of Prior Oswald Moosmueller, the monastic community survived considerable hardships. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/humboldt/stpeters/maprt03a.htm   (268 words)      Cluny and other monastic movements of the Central Middle Ages The Gilbertines, founded as communities of nuns on the model of the Cistercian order, who refused to accept them, with attached communities of canons regular (The Rule of Augustine), and lay brothers and sisters. Cluny and other reforms of the Central Middle Ages Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Edmunds; see especially the Abbey of St. Edumunds and the Jews, and Gerald of Wales's account of the Discovery of the Tomb of King Arthur from his De Instructione Principis. http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/medieval/medref.html   (548 words)      Tourism Cluny Burgundy Without forgetting the beauty of the landscape that lends itself to walks and hiking. Founded more than a 1,000 years ago, its sculptured stonework expresses the purest Romanesque art; its religious and political influence extended throughout Europe with more than 15, 000 monks in 1,200 monasteries and priories. Each year more than 100, 000 people visit Cluny Abbey, which in its time was the rival of http://www.hotel-cluny.com/pages_en/clunisois.php   (426 words)      Medieval Sourcebook: Bernard of Clarivaux: Apology The Cistercians began in 1098 when some Benedictine monks in search of a more rigorous life settled at Citeaux. The Apology is part of a running feud with the Benedictine abbey of Cluny and its many dependent houses. By the time Suger was rebuilding the abbey church at St. Denis, a new religious order was attracting attention throughout Europe. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bernard1.html   (1072 words)      Life at the Chateau de Matel Exceptional 11th century romanesque basilica and pilgimage centre where mystic St. Marguerite is buried. Circuit 4 - 11th Century Romanesque and 10th Century Cluny Architecture Anzy-le-Duc - Churhc affiliated with the Abbey in Charlieu and the famous abbey in Cluny. http://www.3ponts.edu/tourism/circuit4.htm   (120 words)      Ancienne Abbaye Burgundy, with Dijon Sights & Activities Fodor's Online Travel Guide Founded in the 10th century, the Ancienne Abbaye was the largest church in Europe until the 16th century, when Michelangelo built St. Peter's in Rome. Vestiges of both the abbey and the village constructed around it are conserved here, as well as part of the Bibliothèque des Moines (Monks' Library). On one side of the transept is a national horse-breeding center (haras) founded in 1806 by Napoléon and constructed with materials from the destroyed abbey; on the other is an elegant pavilion built as new monks' lodgings in the 18th century. http://www.fodors.com/miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=burgundy_dijon@39&cur_section=sig&property_id=82456   (304 words)      Architectural Frieze [French] (1980.263.1) Object Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art French; Possibly from the abbey church at Cluny, Burgundy This elaborate frieze, which combines rosettes and a cityscape, is thought to have decorated the third abbey church at Cluny, the largest ecclesiastic building of its time in western Europe. The target of iconoclasm, the Cluny abbey church was almost entirely destroyed during the French Revolution. http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/mona/hod_1980.263.1.htm   (99 words)      Abbaye de Cluny It was at this time, around 1088, that construction began on the third abbey church (Cluny III). Abbot Hugues de Semur (1049-1109) decided to build a huge church, 187 metres long, which remained the longest church in Christendom until the construction... The Benedictine abbey of Cluny was the cradle of a reform which drastically changed the western monastic tradition. http://www.monum.fr/visitez/decouvrir/fiche.dml?lang=en&id=18   (101 words)      ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Cluny Burgundy was a seat of intellectual and religious authority in the Middle Ages, largely because of the influence of the Benedictine abbey in Cluny.... The museum is housed in a late Gothic mansion, the Hôtel de Cluny, erected toward the end of the 15th... Cluny, town in east central France, in the Saône-et-Loire Department, on the Grosne River near Mâcon. http://au.encarta.msn.com/Cluny.html   (85 words)      Cluny - Wisconsin Department of Art History Cluny III: Abbey Church, Plan of monastery in 18th century, Cluny, 1088-1130, Medieval: Romanesque Cluny III: Abbey Church, Nave, Cluny, 1088-1130, Medieval: Romanesque Cluny III: Abbey Church, Exterior from Southeast, Cluny, 1088-1130, Medieval: Romanesque http://uni-muenster.de/Fruehmittelalter/Projekte/Cluny/Links/wisconsin.htm   (153 words)      St. Odo of Cluny Odo is the glory of the great abbey of Cluny, which was responsible for a huge program of monastic and clerical reform under this great abbot. While a canon of Martin of Tours, St. Odo of Cluny became acquainted with Blessed Berno, the founder of Cluny, and became a monk of the Cluniac monastery of Baume. He was the second abbot of Cluny but began his religious life as canon of St. Martin of Tours, to whom he always had a deep devotion. http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STODO.htm   (454 words)      Cluny, Burgundy Canal, France The war of religions and French Revolution destroy the abbey. From 1088 to 1130, the monks build the most impressive church ever, taller than the Vatican, and marks the beginning of Burgundian Roman art. The charter declared independance from the royalty, and within two hundred years, the Order of Cluny, have more than 10, 000 monks and 1,450 monastaries following the order of Benoit. http://www.burgundy-canal.com/v/cluny.html   (147 words)      [No title] It is thought Ber­nard spent the rest of his life at the ab­bey. The ab­bey thus had a po­si­tion and in­flu­ence per­haps un­e­qualled since. Of Eng­lish de­scent, he en­tered the Ab­bey of Clu­ny, whose head then was Pe­ter the Ven­er­a­ble. http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/e/r/bernard_m.htm   (189 words)      On The Net Resources in Virtual Reality - Museums During the 11th and 12th centuries, the Cluney Abbey was the greatest and most adorned church in Christendom. In 1793 the Abbey of Cluny was demolished following the French revolution; all that stands today is the south portion of the main transept and the octagonal bell tower. At one time it served as the "mother-abbey" of 1000 monasteries throughout Europe. http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/museumapps.html   (741 words)      WebMuseum: Paris History: The Cluny Museum The site was the property of the Abbey of Cluny in Burgandy and on it Abott Jacques d'Ambroise had a building constructed (between 1485 and 1498) to accommodate the Benedictine monks who came from Cluny to visit the capital. This building, standing in its green garden, is one of the finest examples of Flamboyant Gothic architecture. The Hotel stands on the site of the ruins of the Roman baths, dating from the 2nd or early 3rd century. http://www.southern.net/wm/paris/hist/cluny.html   (364 words)      SkyscraperCity Forums - The Abbey of Cluny. The lost of this abbey may be sad but it is only one of the numerous examples of French patrimony destruction, noticeably during the XIXth century when half of the churches were destroyed to please the century's tastes. February 19th, 2005 06:32 PM During the revolution the land was sold, and the owner destroyed the church to sell it in pieces as it was during the Napoleonic wars no one took care or did anything. February 18th, 2005 04:55 PM The Abbey of Cluny. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/printthread.php?t=181866   (426 words)      AH 201 (Dale) Benedictine Abbey of Cluny (III), 1086-1120; 1125-30, Surviving southeast transept tower Benedictine Abbey of Cluny (III), 1086-1120; 1125-30, Ambulatory of choir as shown in 18th century drawing Cluny III, Ambulatory capitals, Ambulatory capital of Rivers of Paradise http://www.wisc.edu/arth/ah318/03.html   (258 words)      Cluny, abbey, Burgundy, Bourgogne Already under its first abbots the monastary of Cluny became the center of a powerful Cluny, located NW of Mâcon, is known for its famous Benedictine abbey St-Pierre et St-Paul, which was founded in 910 by Duke William the Pious of Aquitaine. Its abbots were considered as powerful as monarchs or popes, and four of them - Odon, Mayeul, Odilon and Hugues - are venerated as saints.The present abbey was built in 1089 and was a magnificent structure as the models show below. http://www.centralia.ctc.edu/~vfreund/FrenchResources/Frenchslides/BurgundyFrancheComte/Cluny/Cluny1.html   (104 words)      LIBELLULE The abbey church here was the largest in Christendom prior to the construction of St Peter’s in Rome. After breakfast, a visit to Cluny to see the remains of the Benedictine monastery, founded here by William of Aquitaine in 910. At its height in the 13thC, Cluny was the head of an order of no fewer than 1111 monasteries and over 10,000 monks stretching from Northern England to Germany and Spain. http://www.aero-marine.com/a_guided/barge/libellule.htm   (592 words)      MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cluny Cluny, town in east central France, in Saône-et-Loire Department, on the Grosne River, near Mâcon. Cluny Museum, museum of medieval art in Paris, France, officially named the Musée National du Moyen Age (National Museum of the Middle Ages). Lubitsch's first sound films were made for Paramount Pictures, where he also served as production manager for a brief period in the mid-1930s before... http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Cluny.html   (91 words)

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