Baume Abbey
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The abbey of Baume, in its village of Baume-les-Messieurs, Jura, France, was founded in the early tenth century, as a Benedictine abbey. Its Abbot Berno was called to found Cluny Abbey in 910; subsequently Baume suffered a century of eclipse, before papal authority gave it in 1147 to Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny; dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, Baume, the mother-house of Cluny, became a Cluniac priory. It stands near the source of the Dard[1] in the Jura, France. Around it the picturesque village of Baume-les-Messieurs is congregated. The abbey is famous for its sixteenth-century retable.
The notorious Jean de Watteville was abbé de Baume. Baume was secularised in 1753 and its canons were expelled in 1790, at the start of the French Revolution: Baumes-les-Moines became Baume-les-Messeurs.
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- ^ The actual source is the show cave les Grottes de Baume-les -Messieurs.
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