| Aurillac Abbey | |
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| Abbey of Saint Gerald, Aurillac | |
Abbaye Saint-Géraud d'Aurillac | |
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| 44°55′53″N 2°26′54″E / 44.93138°N 2.448202°E | |
| Location | Aurillac, Auvergne, France |
| Address | Place Saint-Géraud |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Religious institute | Order of Saint Benedict |
| History | |
| Founder(s) | Gerald of Aurillac |
| Architecture | |
| Style | Romanesque |
| Groundbreaking | 885 |
| Completed | 916 |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Flour |
Aurillac Abbey, otherwise the Abbey of Saint Gerald, Aurillac (French: Abbaye Saint-Géraud d'Aurillac), founded around 895 in Auvergne (in the present department of Cantal) by Count Gerald of Aurillac, destroyed during the French Wars of Religion and suppressed with the Revolution, was one of the oldest Benedictine abbeys, and probably influenced, in its arrangements and organization, the foundation of Cluny itself.[1][2]
The abbey was also a leading intellectual center in the Middle Ages, the cradle of the French cultural and literary renewal of the 10th century:[3] it formed among others Gerbert, later Pope Sylvester II, who maintained strong ties with his monastery of origin until his death.[4]
- ^ Besse (1912)
- ^ Bouange (1899, p. 158).
- ^ Paulin Paris (1867). Histoire literaire de la France. Vol. 6. Paris: Palmé. p. 23.
Aurillac, a monastery founded at the end of the previous century by St. Gerald, was the main cradle of the renewal of letters in the late 10th century
- ^ Focillon, Henri (2010). L'anno Mille. Milano: SE. p. 191.