the Third Crusade met at Vézelay before officially departing for the Holy Land. The human settlement on the hill of Vézelay is very anterior to the Benedictine...

Vézelay Abbey (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay) is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the east-central French department...

Paule Vézelay (1892–1984) was a British painter, known for her abstract art. Vézelay was born Marjorie Watson-Williams in Bristol, a daughter of a pioneering...

Archivolts of Sainte-Anne Portal The Vézelay Abbey was built in France in the ninth century on a hill in the village of Vézelay by Benedictine Monks and became...

Foissy-lès-Vézelay (French pronunciation: [fwasi lɛ vez(ə)lɛ], literally Foissy near Vézelay) is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...

On 31 March, 1146, the French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached at Vézelay to encourage support for the Second Crusade. News from the Holy Land alarmed...

Museum of Art in New York City, and a rib in the Vezelay Abbey, the Basilica of Ste. Magdalene, in Vezelay France. The purported skull of Mary Magdalene...

Jerusalem (1042–1119), born Jehan de Vezelay, a French Catholic religious leader, was the abbot of the monastery at Vézelay, France, as well as one of the founders...

Fontenay-près-Vézelay (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tnɛ pʁɛ vez(ə)lɛ], literally Fontenay near Vézelay) is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...

April 1767 in Vézelay – 22 February 1849 in Paris) was a French Army General and Governor of Guadalope. Desfourneaux was born in Vézelay and joined the...

Western churches and monasteries, including those of Cluny, Cîteaux, and Vézelay. Cluny, founded in 910, exerted a strong influence in Europe for centuries...

the Duke and Duchess moved to France, spending time in both Paris and Vézelay. The Duke died in 1973 in Edinburgh. Campbell was fluent in both French...

there were four main starting points in the Cathedral cities of Tours, Vézelay, Le Puy-en-Velay and Arles. They are today all routes of the Grande Randonnée...

the Camino on bicycle or on horseback. Paths from the cities of Tours, Vézelay, and Le Puy-en-Velay meet at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. A fourth French route...

southern France and died there. Starting in around 1050, the monks of the Vézelay Abbey of la Madaleine in Burgundy said they discovered Mary Magdalene's...

Formal culinary training began at age 14 at the restaurant L’Esperance in Vézelay under chef Marc Meneau, where he worked for three years. He then worked...

venerate. Pilgrims also visit another purported tomb of Lazarus at the Vézelay Abbey in Burgundy. In the Abbey of the Trinity at Vendôme, a phylactery...

The late Romanesque tympanum of Vézelay Abbey, Burgundy, France, 1130s...

Burgundy wine (French: Bourgogne or vin de Bourgogne) is made in the Burgundy region of eastern France, in the valleys and slopes west of the Saône, a...

passed through France, congregating for the journey at Jumièges, Paris, Vézelay, Cluny, Arles and St. Gall in Switzerland. They crossed two passes in the...

most pilgrims came from France: typically from Arles, Le Puy, Paris, and Vézelay; some from Saint Gilles. Cluny, site of the celebrated medieval abbey,...

narrative scenes. Outstanding abbey churches with sculpture include in France Vézelay and Moissac and in Spain Silos. Romanesque art was characterised by a very...

Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1188, 342. Hugh of Poitiers, The Vézelay Chronicle, transl. John Scott, John O. Ward, (Medieval & Renaissance Texts...

also appeared in Burgundy and in an experimental version at the Abbey of Vézelay at about the same time. These vaults allowed ceilings that were lighter...

in the unsuccessful Second Crusade, notably through a famous sermon at Vézelay (1146). Bernard was canonized just 21 years after his death by Pope Alexander...

Blind arcade, Vézelay Abbey, France...

tradition held that relics of Mary Magdalene were preserved here, and not at Vézelay, and that she, her brother Lazarus, and a certain Maximinus fled the Holy...

Retrieved 23 April 2020. Falser, Michael (2013). "From Gaillon to Sanchi, from Vézelay to Angkor Wat. The Musée Indo-Chinois in Paris: A Transcultural Perspective...

1915 Romain Rolland January 29, 1866 Clamecy, France December 30, 1944 Vézelay, France 1915, 1916 Awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916....

Hugh of Poitiers (died 1167) was a Benedictine monk of Vézelay Abbey and chronicler. His Historia Vizeliacensis monasterii was written from about 1140...