Cluny Abbey
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Cluny Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France. It was dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. The abbey was the originating point of Cluniac Reforms and controlled a large
Cluny Abbey in 2025.
Aerial image of Cluny Abbey with its court of honor
The site of the abbey church, looking east through the west door
The surviving south transept of the abbey church
Cluniac Order
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The Order of Cluny was a monastic order of the Catholic Church following the Rule of Saint Benedict. It was founded in the 10th century and suppressed at the end of the 18th century.
Cluny Abbey
…was the originating point of Cluniac Reforms and controlled a large network of monasteries throughout the Western Europe, sometimes referred to as the Cluniac Order. The abbey was constructed in the Romanesque architectural style, with three churches built in succession from the 10th to the early 12th centuries…
Peter the Venerable and the monks
Majolus of Cluny, anonymous 18th-century painting
Basilica of Saint-Urbain, Troyes, statue of Odilo of Cluny
Reconstruction of the abbey church of Cluny III.