Cormery Abbey

Coordinates: 47°16′8.3994″N 0°50′12.8394″E / 47.268999833°N 0.836899833°E / 47.268999833; 0.836899833
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Abbaye Saint-Paul de Cormery
Benedictine
Established791
Disestablished1790
Dedicated toSaint Paul
DioceseTours
Site
LocationCormery, France
Coordinates47°16′8.3994″N 0°50′12.8394″E / 47.268999833°N 0.836899833°E / 47.268999833; 0.836899833

Comercy Abbey or Saint-Paul de Cormery Abbey (

Benedictine abbey located on the territory of the commune of Cormery in the French department of Indre-et-Loire in the Centre-Val de Loire
region.

History

A simple monastic foundation of Ithier of St. Martin in 791, it was raised in the year 800 to the rank of abbey by

St James the Persian and St Adrian and hairs of St Paul that Guillermus had collected while serving as chaplain in Nicomedia in the Byzantine Empire.[2]

The abbey was able to recover from damages it incurred in the

Maurists from 1662 onwards, it did not regain its lustre, its numbers diminished inexorably and it was an already weakened abbey that finally succumbed to the suppression of the congregations during the French Revolution
, in 1790. The last monks were dispersed, the buildings sold as national property were destroyed or divided up and then redesigned.

In the 21st century, however, there are still important vestiges of the Saint-Paul de Cormery abbey, scattered in an urban landscape where their original unity is sometimes difficult to identify among the recent constructions: the Saint-Paul tower (the bell tower-porch of the abbey church), a Gothic chapel in the choir, the refectory, which has been largely preserved even though it has undergone a lot of remodeling, and a portion of the gallery of the cloister are still standing. On the periphery of the monastic enclosure, the dwellings of the abbot, the prior and the sacristan remain. In stages between 1908 and 1933, all of these remains, with the exception of the sacristan's dwelling, were classified or registered as historical monuments, while the capitals of the preserved parts are listed in the general inventory of cultural heritage.

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