Cluny Abbey
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Sometimes spelled Cluni or Clugny. 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. Its leaders and students constitute a list remarkable men; those profiled on this site include
- Blessed Aaron of Cracow
- Blessed Amadeus of Clermont
- Blessed Herman of Zahringen
- Blessed Hugh of Montaigu
- Blessed Peter the Venerable
- Pope Blessed Urban II
- Pope Saint Gregory VII
- Saint Alferius of La Cava
- Saint Aymard of Cluny
- Saint Berno of Cluny
- Saint Gerald of Ostia
- Saint Hugh of Anzy-le-Duc
- Saint Hugh of Cluny
- Saint Majolus of Cluny
- Saint Odilo of Cluny
- Saint Odo of Cluny
- Saint Robert of Chaise-Dieu
- Saint Theoger
- Saint Ulric of Zell
The abbey-church of Cluny was the largest monument in Christendom before the building of Saint Peter’s of Rome, Italy, and a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture. After the suppression of the monastery in 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.
MLA Citation
- “Cluny Abbey”. New Catholic Dictionary. CatholicSaints.Info. 31 August 2018. Web. 15 May 2024. <http://catholicsaints.info//>