Avenas Monastery
The Avenas Monastery was a Cistercian monastery in France in the municipality of Avenas in the canton of Villefranche-sur-Saône near the towns of Belleville and Beaujeu . The church of Notre-Dame d'Avenas from the 12th century with a limestone altar has been preserved. At the foot of the Fût d'Avenas (762 m) lies the small village of Avenas with the church.
Lore
The name Avenas is said to go back to Princess Avana , a sister of Guillaume de Pieux , the founder of Cluny Abbey . According to the inscription on the limestone altar, Louis the Pious had the Notre Dame d'Avenas church built in memory of the traitor Ganelon . According to the Roland song , Ganelon had become a traitor as a friend and relative.
Not far away were the monasteries of Saint Antoine d ' Ouroux , Saint-Mamert and Saint-Jacques-des-Arrêts . The church was restored in 1906 and 1956 to 1960.
Monastery church
Individual evidence
- ↑ (RE) X LUDOVICUS PIUS ET VIRTITUS AMCUS / OFFERT AEECLESIAM RECIPIT UINTIVS ISTAM / LAPADE BISSENA FLVITTVRVS IVLIVS IBAT / MORS FVGAT OBPOSITV REGIS AD INTITUM
- ↑ Joseph Aubonnet: Curé d'Ouroux (Rhône) depuis 1948, p.2
- ^ Joseph Aubonnet: Avenas, Saint-Mamert, Saint Jacques des Arrêts. 1976
Coordinates: 46 ° 11 ′ 42 ″ N , 4 ° 36 ′ 16 ″ E