Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines Abbey
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. It was dedicated to Saint Genesius and Saint Michael, to whom the surviving church is still dedicated. The monastery is recorded for the first time in 819, in a document mentioning its abbot, Sentimir. Plundered and destroyed, it was rebuilt by order of King Lothair of France in 981. Later it came under the protection of the Counts of Roussillon and later of the Kings of Aragon. The abbey church was enlarged and re-consecrated in 1153. In the 13th century it gained a marble cloister on the north-eastern side. Subsequently the abbey declined, and in 1507 was united with Montserrat...
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