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2011-07-08 Saint-Paul-Lès-Dax, église Saint-Paul de Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, Landes, Aquitaine 08
The kiss of Judas - The Arrest of Christ on the Mount of Olives,
The study of these achievements has highlighted the existence of similar works Sorde-Abbey, Saubrigues but also on the portal of Navarre Leyre and tends to conclude that their sculptors probably came from Spain and that 'they moved elsewhere in a world of symbols which they were familiar.
History
It is about 1160 that the canons of Premonstratensian swarm Abbey Case-God in the Gers to found the Abbey of Arthous under the authority of the abbot Bernard III. The obituary stated Martin Sancho Domezain, the noble Soule, the founder by "Fundator hujus Ecclesiae." Dedicated to Our Lady, the abbey is called St. Mary d'Arthous. It is dedicated in 1167.
Built on a vacant stretch near the Basque country, the abbey's vocation to evangelize the local people, to offer accommodation to pilgrims en route to St Jacques de Compostela and control a territory bitterly disputed by several lords: Navarre, Béarn and Gascony.
The local lords, viscounts of Soule and Béarn, and those of the King of England, make donations, including livestock and land, as the Premonstratensians are mainly farmers. This enrichment of the abbey ensures economic prosperity that allows it to meet the needs of parishes she heads. It also plays an important role in local life: it relies in particular on its lands in 1289 the walled town of Hastingues by a paréage signed between the Abbot of Arthous and the Seneschal John Hastings, representing the King of England in France
In the sixteenth century, destructions are numerous because of the war against Spain and the religious wars: in 1523, they made the Orange County of Spanish; in 1571, the Huguenots. The abbey is gradually losing its influence declines, and eventually ruined.
The monastery buildings are restored and enlarged in the seventeenth the eighteenth century in the traditional style of the Landes-timbered houses. But in 1766, there are only 5 canons, prompting the bishop of Dax close to the abbey in 1791. The abbey was sold as national property. The canons are more return.
It is then used as farm: carts enter the gutted apse of the church and the convent buildings are decaying. The church fell rundown, served time barn and chai.
The site is classified as a historic monument in 1955. In 1964, Madame de Vilmorin donated it to the General Council of the Landes which began in 1966 its restoration with the help of the State, especially on the outside of the church . Part of the buildings is today hosting trainees in archeology, another part houses a documentation center and an archaeological deposit. The abbey houses since 2003 the county Heritage Centre.
2011-07-08 Saint-Paul-Lès-Dax, église Saint-Paul de Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, Landes, Aquitaine 08
The kiss of Judas - The Arrest of Christ on the Mount of Olives,
The study of these achievements has highlighted the existence of similar works Sorde-Abbey, Saubrigues but also on the portal of Navarre Leyre and tends to conclude that their sculptors probably came from Spain and that 'they moved elsewhere in a world of symbols which they were familiar.
History
It is about 1160 that the canons of Premonstratensian swarm Abbey Case-God in the Gers to found the Abbey of Arthous under the authority of the abbot Bernard III. The obituary stated Martin Sancho Domezain, the noble Soule, the founder by "Fundator hujus Ecclesiae." Dedicated to Our Lady, the abbey is called St. Mary d'Arthous. It is dedicated in 1167.
Built on a vacant stretch near the Basque country, the abbey's vocation to evangelize the local people, to offer accommodation to pilgrims en route to St Jacques de Compostela and control a territory bitterly disputed by several lords: Navarre, Béarn and Gascony.
The local lords, viscounts of Soule and Béarn, and those of the King of England, make donations, including livestock and land, as the Premonstratensians are mainly farmers. This enrichment of the abbey ensures economic prosperity that allows it to meet the needs of parishes she heads. It also plays an important role in local life: it relies in particular on its lands in 1289 the walled town of Hastingues by a paréage signed between the Abbot of Arthous and the Seneschal John Hastings, representing the King of England in France
In the sixteenth century, destructions are numerous because of the war against Spain and the religious wars: in 1523, they made the Orange County of Spanish; in 1571, the Huguenots. The abbey is gradually losing its influence declines, and eventually ruined.
The monastery buildings are restored and enlarged in the seventeenth the eighteenth century in the traditional style of the Landes-timbered houses. But in 1766, there are only 5 canons, prompting the bishop of Dax close to the abbey in 1791. The abbey was sold as national property. The canons are more return.
It is then used as farm: carts enter the gutted apse of the church and the convent buildings are decaying. The church fell rundown, served time barn and chai.
The site is classified as a historic monument in 1955. In 1964, Madame de Vilmorin donated it to the General Council of the Landes which began in 1966 its restoration with the help of the State, especially on the outside of the church . Part of the buildings is today hosting trainees in archeology, another part houses a documentation center and an archaeological deposit. The abbey houses since 2003 the county Heritage Centre.