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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 ...
The abbey church. La Chaise-Dieu means "the Seat of God" in French (from the Occitan "Chasa Dieu") and is a reference to the Benedictine abbey [3] which was founded on the site in 1043 by Robert de Turlande, a kinsman of Gerald of Aurillac and canon of Saint Julian's church at Brioude, nearby.
The Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu, in Auvergne (La Chasa-Dieu in Occitan), is a former Benedictine abbey, headquarters of the Casadean order, located in the commune of La Chaise-Dieu in the department of Haute-Loire. The origin of the name is the Latin phrase Casa Dei (The House of God), hence the adjective "Casadean."
Robert de Turlande (d. 1067) who founded the monastery of Chaise Dieu in the Brioude district; Peter Chavanon (d. 1080), a canon regular, founder and first provost of the Abbey of Pébrac . The Benedictine, Hughes Lanthenas (1634–1701), [ 90 ] the historian of the Abbey of Vendôme , who edited the works of Bernard of Clairvaux and St. Anselm ...
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.
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.
Robert Lawrence (martyr) (d. 1535), Carthusian Robert Southwell (priest) (c. 1560-1595), poet and martyr Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621), Jesuit, cardinal, Doctor of the Church
The number of concerts is steadily increasing and stabilizes at around 35 in the Saint-Robert Abbey in La Chaise-Dieu, but also in other heritage sites in the region: the churches of Puy-en-Velay and its Italian theater, the Église Saint-Jean d'Ambert, the Basilique Saint-Julien of Brioude, the Saint-Georges Church of Saint-Paulien, the Saint ...