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Title: The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Catholic Church Theology Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York, R. Appleton
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
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ans of Dijon; nor does it dimthe splendour of the saints miracles, as related byGregory of Tours and by the Book of the Miraclesof St. Benignus- During the last generation noquestion has given rise to more animated polemicsamong the Catholic scholars of France than the apos-tolate of St. Benignus. Under the Merovingians and Carolingians most ofthe bishops of Langres resided at Dijon, e. g. St.Urbanus (fifth century), St. Gregory, and St. Tetricus(sixth century), who were buried there. When, in1016, Lambert, Bishop of Langres, ceded the seignioryand county of Dijon to King Robert, the Bishops ofr.??F®-?,™^°® I^^gies their place of residence. InAuu Cl?!,eiit XII made Dijon a bishopric. TheAbbey of Samt-Etienne of Dijon (fifth century) longhad a regular chapter that observed the Rule of StAugustine; it was given over to secular canons byIaul V m 1611, and Clement XI made its church thecathedral of Dijon; during the Revolution it wastransformed into a, forage storehouse. The abbatial
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CATHEDRAL OF SAINT-BENIGNE, DIJON DILLINGEN 795 DILLINGEN church of Saint-B^nigne became the cathedral ofDijon early in the nineteenth century. CardinalLecot, later Archbishop of Bordeaux, was Bishop ofDijon from 1886 to 1890. Pope Pius Xs request in1904 for the resignation of Monseigneur Le Nordez,Bishop of Dijon since 1899, was one of the incidentswhich led to the rupture of relations between Franceand the Holy See. Romanesque architecture was very popular in Bur-gundy; its masterpiece is the Cathedral of Saint-B^nigne of Dijon, consecrated by Paschal II in 1106and completed in 1288. The Gothic style, althoughless used, characterizes the churches of Notre-Damede Dijon (1252-1334), Notre-Dame de Semur, andIAbbaye Saint-Seine; it was also the style of theSainte-Chapelle of Dijon, which is no longer in exist-ence. Under the dukes of Burgundy, at the close ofthe fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth century,Burgundian art flourished in a surprising degree.The Chartreuse of Champmol,

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