Solesmes
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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