Solesmes
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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
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 the 19th century, the old Catholic music was saved, almost singlehanded, by the Abbey of Solesmes.
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 Elizabeth Latimer
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