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Solesmes

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Solesmes (sôlĕm`), village (1993 est. pop. 1,284), Sarthe dept., NW France. Its famous Benedictine Abbey de Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (founded 1010) was a pilgrimage site and led in the revival of the pure Gregorian chant (see plainsong plainsong or plainchant, the unharmonized chant of the medieval Christian liturgies in Europe and the Middle East; usually synonymous with Gregorian chant, the liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church.
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). The abbey church contains invaluable 15th- and 16th-century sculptures.


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At the same time he often visited the Solesmes monastery, the centre of research into Gregorian Chant, for study and specialist consultation.
While MacEoin offers an adequate treatment of Moreau's spiritual life--and of his links with the Benedictines of Solesmes, the Trappists, and the Sulpicians--the time has probably come for a new book about Moreau's spirituality, one that draws on the new studies prepared for his beatification.
 
 
 
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