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Solesmes

American  
[saw-lem] / sɔˈlɛm /

noun

  1. a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes, France, known especially for the work of its monks in editing and performing Gregorian chant.


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When French presidential contender François Fillon marked the Feast of the Assumption last summer, he attended Mass at Solesmes Abbey, a Benedictine monastery known for defying the anticlerical purges of the French Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2017

The Vatican often calls on the monks of Solesmes to compose new church music in the traditional Gregorian style.

From Time Magazine Archive

Profoundly interested in Catholic liturgy, she studied at the Benedictine school in Solesmes which Pius X, then Pope, considered the best school of plain song extant.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1833 a young French priest named Prosper Gueranger, with 40,000 borrowed francs, founded a Benedictine monastery in an abandoned, 11th century priory at the village of Solesmes in western France.

From Time Magazine Archive

When his time of probation was passed, he decided to enter a convent at Solesmes, and by submitting himself to convent rules, make sure of his vocation.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth