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Suger

/ suːˈʒɛə /

noun

  1. Suger10811151MFrenchRELIGION: clergymanPOLITICS: statesman 1081–1151, French ecclesiastic and statesman, who acted as adviser to Louis VI and regent (1147–49) to Louis VII. As abbot of Saint-Denis (1122–51) he influenced the development of Gothic architecture
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“Eleanor was there at Abbot Suger’s inauguration of the St. Denis cathedral,” Lefebvre explained.

Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, on the French capital’s outskirts, invented this art style in the early 1100s to glorify God in a spectacular new way.

Suger called it a Dionysian theology, based on the writings of a 5th century writer enamored of a Greek theologian then thought to have been a disciple of St. Paul.

Abbot Suger would represent the new union in stone and glass.

Virgins can now relax because we now have tractor trailor mounted "mobile refining platforms" that can be driven to the winery, and do whatever they do to bring down the suger levels.

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