Holy Cross Abbey (Poitiers)
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The Abbey of the Holy Cross was a French Benedictine nunnery founded in the 6th century. Destroyed during the French Revolution, a new monastery with the same name was built in a nearby location durin
Walls of the pre-Revolutionary abbey buildings, dating from the 16th century
Venantius Fortunatus reading his poems to Radegund by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1862).
Venantius Fortunatus
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Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus, known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus, was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a Christian bishop who has been venerated since the Mid
Holy Cross Abbey (Poitiers)
…Cross. As part of the ceremony of processing to the abbey with this sacred relic, she commissioned her friend, the Italian nobleman and religious poet Venantius Fortunatus, later to become bishop of the city, to write a poem to mark the occasion. For this, he produced the hymn Vexilla Regis, considered to be one of the…
Fortunatus, from a manuscript of his Vita Radegundis