Paris, Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre
Building Data for Paris, Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre
- Type: Parish
- Affiliation: Benedictine
- Region: Ile-de-France
- Department: Paris
- Coords: 48.886, 2.3420
- Surveyed: 1977, 1980-83, 2005
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Documents for Paris, Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre
1134, Aug 3/Oct 25Confirmation of foundation by Adelaide of Savoy, wife to Louis le Gros NOTUM FIERI VOLUMUS CUNCTIS FIDELIBUS, TAM FUTURIS, QUAM PRAESENTIBUS, QUOD PRO REMEDIO ANIMAE MEAE ET PREDECESSORUM MEORUM, ET PRECE ET CONSILIO CARISSIMAE UXORIS MEAE ADELAIDIS REGINAE, ECCLESIAM ET ABBATIAM IN MONTE, QUI MONS MARTYRUM APPELLATUR, AUTHORE DEO CONSTRUXIMUS,... Observances to be made by the entire body of the faithful, as much for the future as the present, for the remediation of the souls of myself and my ancestors, prayers and charitable counsel for my wife Queen Adelaide, in the church and abbey on the hill, called the Mount of the Martyr, we constructed under the authority of God,... Source: Gallia Christiana, Paris, 1751, vii, Instrumenta, col. 55-56. Adelaide died here in 1154. Luchaire, Annales, 244-245. |
1147, 15 JunePapal consecration EUGENIUS...INDE EST QUOD NOS SANCTIMONIALIUM DE MONTE MARTYRUM NECESSITATUM ATTENDENTES JUXTA PETITIONEM EARUM, ANNO AB INCARNATIONE DOMINI MCXLVII, KALENDIS JUNII LOCUM IPSUM PER PRESENTIAM NOSTRAM ADIVIMUS, IBIQUE SPIRITUS SANCTI GRATIA INVOCATA, MAJUS ALTARE IN HONOREM BEATOREM MARTYRUM, VIDELICET DIONYSII, RUSTICI ET ELEUTHERII, AUTORE DOMINO CONSECRAVIMUS. Eugenius...in attending to the needs of those attending the Montmartre, in the year of Our Lord 1147, the month of June, in that place in our presence, the high altar in honor of the blessed martyrs, Denis, Rustici and Eleutherius, was consecrated to God the creator. Source: Lasteyrie, P. de, Cartulaire génerale de Paris, Paris, 1887, No. 341, 309-310. |