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Abbot Of Aniane
The abbey of Aniane was a Benedictine monastery in southern France between 782 and 1790. Founded by Benedict of Aniane with the support of Charlemagne, it was a major reforming monastery in the Carolingian Empire, Carolingian era. It went into decline in the 16th century, when it was placed in commendam, under custodianship (1542) and sacked by Calvinists (1562). After 1633, it was a Maurist house. It was closed during the French Revolution. History Foundation Aniane was founded in 782 in the diocese of Maguelone as a Benedictine monastery.M. A. Claussen"Aniane (abbey)" in Robert E. Bjork (ed.), ''The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages'' (Oxford University Press, 2010), retrieved 15 December 2024.P. Cousin, "Aniane, Abbey of", in ''The New Catholic Encyclopedia'', 2nd ed., Vol. 1: A–Azt (Gale, 2002), pp. 453–454. Its founder was Benedict of Aniane, Witiza, son of the count of Maguelone and a friend of Charlemagne. He took the religious name Benedict.A. Rastoul"Aniane (abbaye d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolingian Monastic Reform
The Carolingian Church encompasses the practices and institutions of Christianity in the Francia, Frankish kingdoms under the rule of the Carolingian dynasty (751-888). In the eighth and ninth centuries, Western Europe witnessed decisive developments in the structure and organisation of the church, relations between secular and religious authorities, monastic life, theology, and artistic endeavours. Christianity was the principal religion of the Carolingian Empire. Through military conquests and missionary activity, Latin Church, Latin Christendom expanded into new areas, such as Saxony and Bohemia. These developments owed much to the leadership of Carolingian rulers themselves, especially Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, whose courts encouraged successive waves of religious reform and viewed Christianity as a unifying force in their empire. Historical context The Merovingian church Carolingian Christianity was heavily influenced by their predecessors, the Merovingian dynasty, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Béziers
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role or office of the bishop is called episcopacy or the episcopate. Organisationally, several Christian denominations utilise ecclesiastical structures that call for the position of bishops, while other denominations have dispensed with this office, seeing it as a symbol of power. Bishops have also exercised political authority within their dioceses. Traditionally, bishops claim apostolic succession, a direct historical lineage dating back to the original Twelve Apostles or Saint Paul. The bishops are by doctrine understood as those who possess the full priesthood given by Jesus Christ, and therefore may ordain other clergy, including other bishops. A person ordained as a deacon, priest (i.e. presbyter), and then bishop is understood to hold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostang Of Arles
Rostang of Arles (or Rostang I, Rostaing; died 913) was Archbishop of Arles from 870 to 913. He supported the coup d'état of Boso of Provence against the Carolingians in 879. Early years Rostang became a monk, and then became abbot of Aniane in the diocese of Maguelonne. He kept this abbey long afterwards with the priory of Goudargues in the diocese of Uzès. He also became abbot of Cruas and of the priory of Jourdaigues. In 870, or in 871 according to Augustin Fabre, he received the archbishopric of Arles. Archbishop of Arles Throughout his archiepiscopate, he faithfully supported the Bosonids, first Boso, then his son Louis the Blind. When the latter, a recluse in Vienne, entrusted power towards 910 to his cousin Hugh of Arles, the Archbishop of Arles rallied to Hugh, particularly in the conflict between the Burgundian families who followed Hugues in Provence, called "Burgundians" and the aristocratic families of the South, known as "Legitimists". Under Boso, Duke of Prove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agobard
Agobard of Lyon (–840) was a Spain, Spanish-born priest and archbishop of Lyon, during the Carolingian Renaissance. The author of multiple treatises, ranging in subject matter from the Byzantine Iconoclasm, iconoclast controversy to Spanish Adoptionism to critiques of the Carolingian royal family, Agobard is best known for his critiques of Judaism, Jewish religious practices and political power in the Francia, Frankish-Carolingian Empire, Carolingian realm. He was succeeded by Amulo, Amulo of Lyons. Early life A native of Spain, Agobard moved to Lyon in 792. He was ordained as a priest , and was well-liked by the archbishop of Lyon, Leidrad (r. 799–816). At some point, Agobard was ordained as a chorbishop, or assistant bishop. Controversy arose in 814, when the aging Leidrad retired into a monastery, appointing Agobard as his successor. While Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious did not object to the appointment, some of the other bishops did, calling a synod at Arles to protes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smaragdus Ardo
Ardo Smaragdus (died March 843 AD) was a hagiographer. He entered the monastery of Aniane in Hérault as a boy, probably as an oblate, and was brought up by Benedict of Aniane. He was ordained a priest and made head of the monastery school.Ott, Michael. "Ardo Smaragdus." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 23 September 2021 In 794, he accompanied Benedict to the . and in 814, he replaced Benedict as after the latter joined the imperial court at |
Chronicon Anianense
The ''Chronicle of Aniane'' (or ''Annals of Aniane'') is an anonymous Latin history covering the rise of the Carolingian family from 670 to 840. It was composed by a monk of the Abbey of Aniane (Hérault). The ''Chronicle of Aniane'' is closely related to the ''Chronicle of Moissac'' and the two have not always been adequately distinguished. For the years 670–812, the two chronicles draw on the same sources, including a lost source from southern France. A gap in the ''Chronicle of Moissac'' for the years 716–770 makes the ''Chronicle of Aniane'' the only surviving text to preserve information from this lost source for those years. The date of composition of the ''Chronicle of Aniane'' is unknown. It is found in a single manuscript copy from the early twelfth century, but may have been composed much earlier. Date, place and author The ''Chronicle'' was composed by a monk of the Abbey of Aniane. The date of its composition is unknown. It has been dated as early as the ninth an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notitia De Servitio Monasteriorum
The ''Notitia de servitio monasteriorum'' ("Notice of the Service of Monasteries") is a list of monasteries in the Frankish Empire and the services they owed the crown. It was compiled under Emperor Louis the Pious in 819, probably as a summation of the royal reform of the monasteries carried out following the councils of 816 and 817. It is not a complete list of the reformed monasteries: only 82 of the 104 monasteries known to have adopted the reforms are listed in the ''Notitia''.Zola (2008), 128–29. There three basic services monasteries could owe to the sovereign. ''Militia'' was military service. ''Dona'' was an annual gift, tax or service "donated" to the king. ''Orationes'' was the obligation to pray for the royal family and the state of the realm. Collectively, these were known by the technical term ''servitium regis'' ("king's service"), hence the ''servitio'' of the ''Notitia'''s title. The service of prayer, although specified in the ''Notitia'', appears to have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celleneuve
Celleneuve (''Cèlanòva'' in Occitan language, Occitan) is a part of ''Mosson'' Montpellier#Neighbourhoods, neighbourhood, in the West of the city of Montpellier, Hérault, France. The place name can be translated as ''new cellar''. It first appeared in Aniane's cartulary, written in 799, where it is mentioned that Benedict of Aniane (c. 747-821) created a priory, called ''Cella nova'' on the soil of Juvignac, even before the city of Montpellier was founded (first mentioned in a document of 985). Equipments * ''Maison pour tous Marie Curie'' * Caisse d'allocations familiales * ''Parc Dioscorides'' * ''Esplanade Léo Malet'' People from Celleneuve: * Jean-Baptiste Fabre (abbot), Abbé Fabre (1727–1783), a prior of Celleneuve, writer of Occitan literature, whose ''Sermoun de moussu sistre'', delivered by a drunken priest against intemperance, is a masterpiece. * Léo Malet (1909-1996), a crime novelist and the creator of fiction character Nestor Burma. References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey Church Of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe
The Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe is a Roman Catholic church located in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, in Poitou, France. The Romanesque church was begun in the mid-11th century and contains many beautiful 11th- and 12th-century murals which are still in a remarkable state of preservation. The church is often referred to as the "Romanesque Sistine Chapel" and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983. History The Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe was an ancient abbey that is thought to have been founded by Saint Benoît d’Aniane under the protection of Charlemagne and his immediate successors, although its early history remains obscure. The church was rebuilt starting in 1023. The paintings in the main church are believed to have been painted between 1095 and 1115. Description The cruciform church carries a square tower over its crossing. The transept was built first, then the choir with its ambulatory with five radial chapels in the polygonal apse. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cormery Abbey
Cormery Abbey or the Abbey of Saint Paul, Cormery (), is a former Benedictine abbey located on the territory of the commune of Cormery in the French department of Indre-et-Loire in the Centre-Val de Loire region. History Ithier, abbot of Saint Martin in Tours, founded a monastic cell here in 791, which was raised in the year 800 to the rank of abbey by Alcuin, and adopted the Rule of Saint Benedict. It was then attached to the Abbey of Saint Martin in Tours, and remained so until its dissolution during the Revolution. Despite the damage caused by the Vikings in the second half of the ninth century, which is difficult to quantify, the abbey developed rapidly, and around it the town of Cormery. In the middle of the Middle Ages, the abbey had many possessions in several French provinces and its boats could navigate freely on all the waterways of the kingdom; with fifty monks, it was one of the most powerful abbeys in Tours. During his tour of France in 1096, Pope Urban II confir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedictine Rule
The ''Rule of Saint Benedict'' () is a book of precepts written in Latin by St. Benedict of Nursia (c. AD 480–550) for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot. The spirit of Saint Benedict's Rule is summed up in the motto of the Benedictine Confederation: ''pax'' ("peace") and the traditional ''ora et labora'' ("pray and work"). Compared to other precepts, the Rule provides a moderate path between individual zeal and formulaic institutionalism; because of this middle ground, it has been widely popular. Benedict's concerns were his views of the needs of monks in a community environment: namely, to establish due order, to foster an understanding of the relational nature of human beings, and to provide a spiritual father to support and strengthen the individual's ascetic effort and the spiritual growth that is required for the fulfillment of the human vocation, theosis. The ''Rule of Saint Benedict'' has been used by Benedictines for 15 centuries, and thus St. Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
