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Abbot Hugh built the third abbey church at Cluny, the largest structure in Europe for many centuries, with funds provided by Ferdinand I of León and Henry I of England. [6] [7] In October 1085, Pope Urban II, a former prior of Cluny, consecrated the high altar. In 1089 he established the Priory of St Pancras, the first Cluniac house in England ...
Cluny's highly centralized hierarchy was a training ground for Catholic prelates: four monks of Cluny became popes: Gregory VII, Urban II, Paschal II and Urban V. An orderly succession of able and educated abbots, drawn from the highest aristocratic circles, led Cluny, and the first six abbots of Cluny were all canonized: St. Berno of Cluny ...
Ancient Roman anchorite and Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint 291 – 371: Hugh of Cluny: Abbot of Cluny 1024 – 1109: Isaac of Armenia: Armenian Catholicos c. 354 – 439: James, son of Zebedee [Note 1] One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ: 3 – 44 [76] Joannicius the Great: Byzantine hermit, theologian and saint 752 – 846 [77] Pope ...
The Abbot of Cluny was the head of the powerful monastery of the Abbey of Cluny in medieval ... Hugh II 1122: 1156: Peter the Venerable: 1157: 1157: Robert Grossus ...
There is a contested medieval story which holds Hugh of Anzy le Duc as one of the agents that helped found Cluny. This story is below. In the 6th century, when Benedict of Nursia was still alive and running his monastery at Monte Cassino, some important people in Gaul sent messengers to St Benedict asking him to send monks to Gaul to give instruction on how to be monks.
The Rule of St. Benedict was also prescribed as the normal monastic code. In a Council of 1065, Saint Hugh, Abbot of Cluny, along with four bishops, accomplished the reconciliation of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, with Hagano the Bishop of Autun. [23] In 1077 Hugues, Bishop of Die held a council at Autun, by order of Pope Gregory VII.
In 1076, Count Simon, on a pilgrimage to Rome, offered it to Abbot Hugh of Cluny as a daughter house. Their meeting was itself the work of Pope Gregory VII. Hugh returned to France with Simon and personally stayed at Saint-Arnoul to reform it along Cluniac lines, against the resistance of the monks. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the ...
Hildebert de Lavardin further mentions that Hézelon wrote a text on the life of Saint Hugh of Cluny, further indication of a certain level of education. [1] [2] He was called to Cluny Abbey to oversee the construction of the abbey church (Cluny III ) which was begun in 1088. It is also possible that he contributed to the building project by ...