Luxeuil Abbey information

Luxeuil Abbey (French pronunciation: [lyksœj]), the Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul, was one of the oldest and best-known monasteries in Franche-Comté...

the abbey was founded in about 617 in the course of the Hiberno-Scottish mission by Agilus and Eustace of Luxeuil, two monks of Luxeuil Abbey, which...

most productive scriptoria was Luxeuil Abbey, founded by the Irish monk Columbanus in 590 and destroyed in 732. Corbie Abbey, founded in 662, developed its...

the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy. Columbanus taught an Irish...

founded by Balthild, the widow of Clovis II, who had monks sent from Luxeuil. The Abbey of Corbie became celebrated both for its library and the scriptorium...

by the queen regent Bathilde with a founding community of monks from Luxeuil Abbey. His most well-known and influential work is an exposition on the nature...

Acarius (died 14 March 642), venerated as Saint Acarius, was a monk of Luxeuil Abbey who became Bishop of Doornik and Noyon, which today are located on either...

Al Ghafiqi invades deep into Burgundy, and plunders the monastery of Luxeuil Abbey, located in the Haute-Saône, massacring most of the community. November...

grew up round Corbie Abbey, founded in 657 or 660 by the queen regent Bathilde, with a founding community of monks from Luxeuil Abbey in the Franche-Comté...

Christians were Luxeuil Abbey in Burgundy, Bobbio Abbey in Lombardy, Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland and Disibodenberg Abbey near Odernheim am...

of Luxeuil, would found the Abbey of Saint-Vincent, later destroyed by Otto II of Burgundy. He was a well-known patron of Columbanus at Luxeuil Abbey (founded...

of Fontenelle, which he reformed according to the practice at Luxeuil Abbey. The abbey soon became a target for Viking raids, culminating in that of 9...

companions and established Luxeuil Abbey on the site of a former Gallo-Roman settlement. The rule that observed at Luxeuil derived from Celtic monastic...

a hermit close to the abbey until the death of the monastery's abbot, Eustace of Luxeuil, when Waldebert was elected Luxeuil's third abbot (c. 628). He...

by testing. Merovingian script, or "Luxeuil minuscule", is named after an abbey in Western France, the Luxeuil Abbey, founded by the Irish missionary St...

of the Hiberno-Scottish mission by Agilus and Eustace of Luxeuil, two monks of Luxeuil Abbey. At the council of Clichy on 1 May 636 Agilus was made the...

made him abbot of the famous Luxeuil Abbey, founded by Saint Columbanus as early as 590. Finally, having also reformed Luxeuil, he was transferred in 823...

missionary St. Columbanus had established the most famous convent in Gaul, Luxeuil Abbey. Following the death of her husband Clovis II in 657, St. Balthild,...

II, who, having been converted by Ame (570–625), a monk of Luxeuil, took the habit at Luxeuil. Together they established a double monastery on Saint-Mont...

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intervention of a number of bishops; he was tonsured and confined to Luxeuil Abbey. In Anglo-Saxon England, Ceolwulf of Northumbria was deposed, forcibly...

Columbanus at the monastery of Luxeuil in the Vosges. Gall is known as a representative of the Irish monastic tradition. The Abbey of Saint Gall in the city...