Vézelay Abbey (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay) is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the east-central French department...

met at Vézelay before officially departing for the Holy Land. The human settlement on the hill of Vézelay is very anterior to the Benedictine abbey. Merovingian...

significance of the Abbey’s purpose as a pilgrimage site to its design. A Portal of the Vézelay Abbey Facade of the Vézelay Abbey Archivolts and tympanum...

rib vault in east end of Lessay Abbey, Normandy (about 1098) (photo from before World War II) Nave of Vézelay Abbey, (1104–1132) with Romanesque groin...

Museum of Art in New York City, and a rib in the Vezelay Abbey, the Basilica of Ste. Magdalene, in Vezelay France. The purported skull of Mary Magdalene...

It also appeared in Burgundy and in an experimental version at the Abbey of Vézelay at about the same time. These vaults allowed ceilings that were lighter...

tympanums. Sculpted tympanums Chartres Cathedral, West Front, Central Portal Tympanum of the last Judgment - western portal of the abbey-church of Saint Foy...

Toulouse, France, the former abbey church of the Abbey of Saint-Sernin or St Saturnin. Apart from the church, none of the abbey buildings remain. The current...

roofed with transverse arches supporting a series of barrel vaults. Vézelay Abbey has clusters of vertical shafts rising to support transverse arches...

Hugh of Poitiers (died 1167) was a Benedictine monk of Vézelay Abbey and chronicler. His Historia Vizeliacensis monasterii was written from about 1140...

Île-de-France, Normandy, Champagne, and Burgundy regions, and from the choir of Vézelay Abbey (fig. 6). Figure 7 shows a circular abacus used at windows in the side...

and too expensive. His first real project was a restoration of the Vézelay Abbey, which many considered as impossible. The church had been sacked by...

southern France and died there. Starting in around 1050, the monks of the Vézelay Abbey of la Madaleine in Burgundy said they discovered Mary Magdalene's actual...

relics, leading to an influx of pilgrims that has continued to this day. Vézelay Abbey was also a major starting point for pilgrims on the Way of St. James...

there, particularly for Saint-Philibert de Tournus Abbey (about 1100). The Typanum of Vézelay Abbey, a pilgrimage church dedicated by the Pope in 1132...

Mont Sainte-Odile Abbey, also known as Hohenburg Abbey, is a nunnery, situated on Mont Sainte-Odile, one of the most famous peaks of the Vosges mountain...

Stone bas-relief of Jesus, from the Vézelay Abbey (Burgundy, France)...

should be built in the Gothic style, which had been inaugurated at the royal abbey of Saint Denis in the late 1130s. The chronicler Jean de Saint-Victor [fr]...

IX pronounces on the authenticity of the relics of Mary Magdalene at Vézelay Abbey in Burgundy, making it a major centre of pilgrimage. March 29 – Stephen...

churches in Paris. The church survived the Revolution although the Montmartre Abbey to which it belonged was destroyed. Construction of Sacré-Cœur underway...

Pilgrims also visit another purported tomb of Lazarus at the Vézelay Abbey in Burgundy. In the Abbey of the Trinity at Vendôme, a phylactery was said to contain...

impressive examples at Saint-Pierre, Moissac, Souillac, and La Madeleine, Vézelay – all daughter houses of Cluny, with extensive other sculpture remaining...

noted in the Duchy of Burgundy, is carved on a Romanesque capital at Vézelay Abbey. Abbot Suger mentions the first relics of Eustace in Europe, at an altar...

figures and often narrative scenes. Outstanding abbey churches with sculpture include in France Vézelay and Moissac and in Spain Silos. Romanesque art...

farms for 45 miles (some 70 km) around. April 21 – The new basilica at Vézelay Abbey (located in northern Burgundy) in France is dedicated. Euphrosyne of...

Lady Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Basilica of St Mary Magdalene (Vézelay Abbey) Basilica of Our Lady of the Willow Basilica of Our Lady of the Oak...

Lady Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Basilica of St Mary Magdalene (Vézelay Abbey) Basilica of Our Lady of the Willow Basilica of Our Lady of the Oak...

famous in France: Notre Dame Cathedral, Mont Saint-Michel, Carcassonne, Vézelay Abbey, Pierrefonds, and Roquetaillade castle. Napoleon III also directed the...

to the Virgin Mary on the hill known as La Garde, which belonged to the abbey of Saint-Victor. The abbot granted him permission to plant vines, cultivate...

Aiguebelle Abbey (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Aiguebelle) is a Trappist monastery situated in the communes of Montjoyer and Réauville in the département...