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Robert de Turlande (c. 1000 - 17 April 1067) was a French Roman Catholic priest and professed member of the Order of Saint Benedict. He was of noble stock and was also related to Saint Gerald of Aurillac. He is best known for the establishment of the Benedictine convent of La Chaise-Dieu ('Home of God') and for his total commitment to the poor ...
After his death, Robert was quickly canonized (1095) as Saint Robert de Turlande (also known as Saint Robert of Chaise-Dieu). [4] The Chaise-Dieu continued to grow throughout the Middle Ages, becoming the motherhouse of further congregations of Black Monks. Pope Clement VI began his vocation as a monk at Chaise Dieu and was the patron of the ...
The abbey church of Saint-Robert was built from 1344 to 1352 in the Gothic style, at the behest of Pope Clement VI to house his tomb. [6]The abbey church replaces the old Romanesque building at the foot of which Saint Robert de Turlande, founder of the abbey, had been buried.
Romanesque Lavaudieu Abbey, otherwise Lavaudieu Priory (Abbaye Saint-André de Lavaudieu), built by St Robert, the first abbot of La Chaise-Dieu, in the 11th century, [4] which was at first a Benedictine priory, and later a house of secular canonesses from the Auvergnat nobility. It was raised to the status of abbey in 1719.
Déols Abbey otherwise Bourg-Dieu (Abbaye Notre-Dame, Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Déols or Bourg-Dieu), Diocese of Bourges (Déols, Indre) Abbaye Notre-Dame de la Déserte ("Our Lady of the Wasteland"), Poor Clares 1304-1503; Benedictine nuns 1503-Revolution, Diocese of Lyon (on La Croix-Rousse in the parish of La Platière, now part of Lyon ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William B. Harrison, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -29.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
During a pilgrimage to Rome he met Robert de Turlande, founder of the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu, and left the military life for the Benedictine order. [1] He later became abbot of La Chaise-Dieu. [2] Queen Constance of Burgundy of Castile was impressed with the reports of Adelelmus' holiness, and invited him to live in Burgos, Spain.
In northern Peru, the World Bank's business-lending arm is part owner of the Yanacocha gold mine, accused by impoverished farming communities of despoiling their land in pursuit of the precious ore. The bank and IFC have stepped up investments in projects deemed to have a high risk of serious and environment damage, including oil pipelines, mines and even coal-fired power plants, an ...