Luxeuil Abbey: Difference between revisions

In 731 a raiding party of [[Moors]] under the skilfulskillful general [[Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi]], governor of [[Andalusia|Al-Andalus]], penetrating from Arles deep into Burgundy, briefly took possession of Luxeuil and massacred most of the community. The few survivors rebuilt the abbey, but both the monastery and the small town that clustered around its walls were devastated by the [[Norsemen|Norse]] in the 9th century and pillaged on several occasions afterwards. Later, under the reforming government of the eighteenth abbot, Saint [[Ansegisus]], [[Louis the Pious]] renewed its charters, restored the church and monastic buildings, and reformed discipline.