Bourgogne romane: Paray–le–Monial
February 24, 2022 will be remembered in History as the sad and shameful day on which dictator Putin launched his attack on free and democratic Ukraine. To see something like this happening at the gates of Europe in the 21st century is almost unbelievable and shows us that barbaric times and practices will decidedly go on for as long as the human species exists, in spite of our all Olympic Games and United Nations and modern means of communication between world leaders...
This is also the day on which we finish our visit of the Romanesque basilica of the Sacred Heart in the small town of Paray-le-Monial in southern Burgundy, is a Mediæval masterpiece known throughout the world.
Paray was a priory of the abbey of Cluny, and after a first church was built here and consecrated in 977, the one we see today was erected around 1050 and designed probably by Saint Hugo himself, abbot of Cluny.
It looks like a reduced, simplified copy of the gigantic church of Cluny, the largest church in Christendom ever until Saint Peter of Rome was rebuilt in the 16th century. That church, dubbed “Cluny III”, was mostly destroyed at the beginning of the 19th century, which is also why Paray is a very interesting testimony, architecturally speaking.
The western façade that is known worldwide.
Bourgogne romane: Paray–le–Monial
February 24, 2022 will be remembered in History as the sad and shameful day on which dictator Putin launched his attack on free and democratic Ukraine. To see something like this happening at the gates of Europe in the 21st century is almost unbelievable and shows us that barbaric times and practices will decidedly go on for as long as the human species exists, in spite of our all Olympic Games and United Nations and modern means of communication between world leaders...
This is also the day on which we finish our visit of the Romanesque basilica of the Sacred Heart in the small town of Paray-le-Monial in southern Burgundy, is a Mediæval masterpiece known throughout the world.
Paray was a priory of the abbey of Cluny, and after a first church was built here and consecrated in 977, the one we see today was erected around 1050 and designed probably by Saint Hugo himself, abbot of Cluny.
It looks like a reduced, simplified copy of the gigantic church of Cluny, the largest church in Christendom ever until Saint Peter of Rome was rebuilt in the 16th century. That church, dubbed “Cluny III”, was mostly destroyed at the beginning of the 19th century, which is also why Paray is a very interesting testimony, architecturally speaking.
The western façade that is known worldwide.