Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes

LC control no.	n 80008719
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (Benedictine abbey : Solesmes, Sarthe, France) Solesmes, France. Saint-Pierre (Benedictine abbey) Solesmes (Sarthe, France). Abbaye Saint-Pierre Solesmes Abbey Solesmes (Benedictine abbey : Solesmes, Sarthe, France) St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes Abbey of St. Peter, Solesmes
Beginning date	1010
Associated country	France
Located	Solesmes (Sarthe, France)
Found in	Its Le célibat pour Dieu dans l'enseignement des papes, 1984: t.p. (les moines de Solesmes) Catholic Church. Gregorian chant, Easter [SR] 1985, p1980: label (St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes) insert (Abbey of St. Peter, Solesmes) Wikipedia, October 5, 2020 (Solesmes Abbey; St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes; Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes; a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe, France), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in France after the French Revolution; founded in 1010 by Geoffrey, Lord of Sable, who donated the monastery and its farm to the Benedictine monks of the Saint-Pierre de la Couture Abbey; dedicated on 12 October, sometime between 1006 and 1015; sacked and burned during the Hundred Years' War but later restored, church rebuilding started towards the end of the 15th century; in 1791 the monks began to leave the monastery or were imprisoned or deported following prohibition of religious vows in 1790; on 14 July 1794 its archives were burned in a 'civic' bonfire; in 1825 government property administrators sold the monastic buildings and 145 acres with its farms; locally born priest Prosper Guéranger acquired them for the home of a new Benedictine community in 1831; the Benedictines moved in on 11 July 1833, and flourished, received Papal approval in 1837, and was elevated to the rank of an abbey and made head of the newly created French Benedictine Congregation, now the Solesmes Congregation within the Benedictine Confederation; since its restoration Solesmes has been dissolved by the French government several times, and the monks forced into exile in England 1901-1922, where the settled on the Isle of Wight and built Quarr Abbey; the community survived and is still at Solesmes; the abbey is known for its contribution to advancement of Roman Catholic liturgy and revival of Gregorian chant)