Gorze Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Gorze in the present arrondissement of Metz-Campagne, near Metz in Lorraine. This article concerns Roman Catholic Order of Saint Benedict see also Benedictine Confederation and Benedictine. Gorze is a commune in the arrondissement of Metz-Campagne, located in the Moselle département, in The arrondissement of Metz-Campagne is an arrondissement of France located in the Moselle département, in the Lorraine Metz (mɛs in French) is a city in the northeast of France, capital of the Lorraine région and Préfecture Lorraine (Lothringen is one of the 26 régions of France. It is the only administrative region with two cities of equal importance Metz and Nancy It was prominent as the source of a monastic reform movement in the 10th century.
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History
Gorze Abbey was founded in 749 by Saint Chrodegang of Metz, who obtained for it from Rome the relics of Saint Gorgonius. Events By Place Europe June — Aistulf succeeds his brother Ratchis as king of the Lombards. Saint Chrodegang (died 6 March 766) was the Frankish Bishop of Metz from 742 or 748 until his death Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Saint Gorgonius was a Christian martyr part of the group Gorgonius Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus, who died in 304 AD at Nicomedia during the persecution The new community at first followed his Rule, but decline later set in. In 933 the premises, by then semi-derelict, were given by Adalbero, Bishop of Metz, to John of Gorze and Einald of Toul so that they could restore observance of the Rule of St. Benedict. Events By Place Europe Cotentin and Jersey are seized by William Longsword, Duke of Normandy. This is a list of Bishops of Metz; the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz now lies in eastern France. Saint John of Gorze (Jean de Gorze John of Lorraine (ca 900— March 7, 974) was a Lorraine -born Monk, Diplomat, administrator They did so extremely successfully and the customary of Gorze soon spread to many other monasteries, at first local, such as St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier, and St. Evre's Abbey, Toul, and later in more distant places, such as Bavaria, through the mediation of Wolfgang of Regensburg. St Maximin's Abbey ( Abtei or Reichsabtei St Maximin) was a Benedictine monastery in Trier in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany St Evre's Abbey Toul ( Abbaye de Saint-Evre de Toul or Abbaye de Saint-Epvre lès Toul) was a Benedictine, later Cluniac, monastery in Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12
Gorze Reform
The Gorze Reform was similar to the Cluniac Reform in that it aimed at a re-establishment of the Rule of St. The Cluniac (Clunian Reform was a series of changes within medieval monasticism, focused on restoring the traditional Monastic life encouraging art and caring for Benedict, but quite different in several major areas. In particular, whereas Cluny created a centralised system of authority in which the religious houses adopting its reforms became subordinate to Cluny itself, the Gorze reforms preserved the independence of the participating monasteries, and resulted instead in a network of loosely connected affiliations based on several centres, such as Fulda, Niederaltaich, Einsiedeln and St. Emmeram's Abbey in Regensburg. Fulda (ˈfʊlda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the Fulda River and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district ( Kreis Niederaltaich Abbey or Niederaltaich Monastery ( Abtei or Kloster Niederaltaich) is a house of the Benedictine Order founded in 731 (or possibly Einsiedeln is a Benedictine Monastery in Einsiedeln town, in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, dedicated to Our Lady of the St Emmeram's Abbey ( Kloster Sankt Emmeram or Reichsabtei Sankt Emmeram) now known as Schloss Thurn und Taxis and St
Gorze was also the home of the "chant messin", an early form of Gregorian chant or plainsong, as a part of the liturgy, and also of sacred drama, particularly in connection with the Easter rituals. History Gregorian chant was organized codified and notated mainly in the Frankish lands of western and central Europe during the 12th and 13th centuries with later additions For the band see " Plainsong (band " For the song on The Cure's 1989 album see " Disintegration " A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group according to their particular traditions Easter ( Greek: Πάσχα Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian Liturgical year.
After the reform
From the 12th century Gorze ceased to occupy the central spiritual position it had had previously. Nevertheless in material terms it continued to prosper, and in the 12th and 13th centuries undertook substantial building works, including the lay church, which alone of the abbey buildings still survives, as the present parish church of Saint Stephen. The extensive territory which the abbey accumulated became known as the "Terre de Gorze".
The abbey was dissolved in 1572 as a consequence of the Reformation. The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time An attempt at a re-foundation in 1580 came to nothing, and the buildings, apart from St. Stephen's church, were demolished.
Abbot's Palace
The "Terre de Gorze" continued however as a territorial unit, with an abbot as its overlord, even in the absence of a monastic community. In the 1660s these lands passed from the Holy Roman Empire to France. The Holy Roman Empire ( HRE; German Heiliges Römisches Reich (HRR, Latin Sacrum Romanum Imperium (SRI was a union of territories in This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. In the 1690s, the Prince-Abbot Eberhard von Löwenstein built an appropriately splendid residence, which still stands. At the time of the French Revolution the building was confiscated and sold off and was later used for a variety of military and local government purposes, particularly as a workhouse for the poor. The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an The palace has now been restored and is in use as a museum, old people's home and for several other purposes. The gardens, nymphaeum and chapel are all of architectural and artistic interest. For a Greek colony in the Crimea see Nymphaion. A nymphaeum, in Ancient Greece and Rome, was a Monument consecrated
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Sources and references
- Lawrence, C. H. , 2001. Medieval Monasticism (3rd edn. ). Longman.
- Nightingale, J. , 2005. Monasteries and Patrons in the Gorze Reform. Oxford:OUP.