St. Maurice's Abbey (Saint-Maurice)
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minster (church), monastery
Founded AD 515.
St. Maurice's Abbey is built on the ruins of a 1st Century B.C. Roman shrine to the god Mercury in the Roman staging-post of Agaunum, and first came to prominence due to a now disputed account by St. Eucherius, Bishop of Lyon. Eucherius experienced a revelation that convinced him of the martyrdom of a Roman legion, known as the "Theban Legion", around 285 A.D., in the area where the abbey is located.
In 515, the basilica of St. Maurice of Agaunum became the center of a monastery under the patronage of King Sigismund of Burgundy, the first ruler in his dynasty to convert from Arian Christianity to Trinitarian Christianity.
St. Maurice's Abbey is built on the ruins of a 1st Century B.C. Roman shrine to the god Mercury in the Roman staging-post of Agaunum, and first came to prominence due to a now disputed account by St. Eucherius, Bishop of Lyon. Eucherius experienced a revelation that convinced him of the martyrdom of a Roman legion, known as the "Theban Legion", around 285 A.D., in the area where the abbey is located.
In 515, the basilica of St. Maurice of Agaunum became the center of a monastery under the patronage of King Sigismund of Burgundy, the first ruler in his dynasty to convert from Arian Christianity to Trinitarian Christianity.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Maurice's_Abbey
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Coordinates: 46°13'9"N 7°0'12"E
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