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Cluniac
(redirected from Cluny Abbey)

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Cluniac
of or relating to a reformed Benedictine order founded at the French town of Cluny in 910


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It was a Benedictine tradition in 1000 AD at the Cluny abbey in Burgundy to break with their rather austere diet of grains and vegetables once a year on the feast day of their patron saint (Flandrin and Montanari 261).
 
 
 
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