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. 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 . It was governed by a series of remarkable men; among them were Abbot Bernon (910-927), Saint Odo (927-942), Blessed Aymard (942-965), Saint Mayeul (965-994), Saint Odilo (994-1049), and Saint Hugh (1049-1109). Several reforming popes, e.g., Saint Gregory VII (Hildebrand), Blessed Urban II, and Paschal II, received their training at Cluny. The abbey -church of Cluny was the largest monument in Christendom before the building of Saint Peter’s of Rome, and a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture . After the suppression of the monastery , 1790 , it was bought by the town and practically razed to the ground. The library was partly destroyed by the Huguenots and again by the mobs of the French Revolution. <\/p>\n
Cluny 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. It played an important part in the Church reform of the 11th century , and reached the zenith of its glory in … Continue reading “Cluny”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}