Luxeuil Abbey (French pronunciation: [lyksœj]), the Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul, was one of the oldest and best-known monasteries in Franche-Comté...
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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...
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Columbanus (category Burials at Bobbio Abbey)
the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy. Columbanus taught an Irish...
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Merovingian illumination (section Luxeuil Monastery)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Waldebert (redirect from Walbert of Luxeuil)
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...
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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...
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already existed; Moutier grew up around the abbey. The abbey was founded as a dependency of Luxeuil Abbey, on land granted by Gundoin, Duke of Alsace...
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the Huns under Attila in 451. In 590, St Columban here founded the Abbey of Luxeuil, afterwards one of the most famous in Franche-Comté. In the 8th century...
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