Solesmes Abbey or St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes) is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in France under Dom Prosper Guéranger after the French Revolution. This article concerns Roman Catholic Order of Saint Benedict see also Benedictine Confederation and Benedictine. This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. Solesmes is a small town and commune of the Sarthe département, in France, located near Sablé. Sarthe (saʁt is a French department, named after the Sarthe River. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Dom Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger (born 4 April 1805, Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France; died 30 January 1875, Solesmes 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
Priory
It was originally founded in 1010 as a priory of the Benedictine Le Mans abbey. Le Mans (ləmɑ̃ in French) is a city in France, located on the Sarthe River. Its history was largely uneventful. It suffered considerably during the Hundred Years' War but was afterwards restored. The Hundred Years' War (Guerre de Cent Ans was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne vacant with the extinction of the senior From the 17th century it underwent a slow decline under a series of commendatory priors. In Canon law, commendam (or in commendam) was a form of transferring an ecclesiastical benefice in trust to the custody It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. 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
Abbey
In 1831 the remaining buildings, which had escaped demolition in the Revolution but were threatened with destruction for want of a buyer, came to the attention of the locally-born priest Prosper Guéranger, who, inspired by the vision of a restored monastic life in France, acquired them for the home of a new Benedictine community, which moved in on 11 July 1833. Dom Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger (born 4 April 1805, Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France; died 30 January 1875, Solesmes Events 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. Year 1833 ( MDCCCXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Against all expectation the new community flourished and in 1837 not only received Papal approval, but was elevated to the rank of an abbey and made the head of the newly created French Benedictine Congregation, now the Solesmes Congregation within the Benedictine Confederation. The Solesmes Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation was founded in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI as the French Benedictine Congregation, with the newly This article is about the organizational structure of the Order of Saint Benedict within the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1866 a nunnery, St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes, was also founded at Solesmes, by Mother Cécile Bruyère (the first abbess) with the support of Dom Guéranger, which was the first house of the nuns of the Solesmes Congregation. St Cecilia's Abbey Solesmes ( Abbaye Sainte-Cécile de Solesmes) is a Benedictine nunnery founded in 1866 by Dom Prosper Guéranger, the restorer of Benedictine Madame Cécile Bruyère ( 1845 - 18 March 1909) was the first abbess of St
The abbey was closed several times by French legislation, and between 1901 and 1922 the monks were forced into exile in England. They settled on the Isle of Wight and built the present Quarr Abbey. The Isle of Wight is an English Island and county in the English Channel between three and five miles (8 km from the south coast of the Quarr Abbey ( is a Monastery between the villages of Binstead and Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The community survived those trials and those of two world wars and is still at Solesmes.
As part of its mission of monastic revival the abbey has been the mother house of numerous other monastic foundations, most notably in recent years the monastery at Palendriai in Lithuania. Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika is a Country in Eastern often referred to as Northern Europe or in the
The abbey is noted for its crucial contribution to the advancement of the Roman Catholic liturgy and the revival of Gregorian chant. This is an article about liturgy in the Roman Catholic Church. 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
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