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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Vézelay, Church and Hill' has mentioned 'Vézelay' in the following places:
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| Vxc3xa9zelay, Church and HillUNESCO World Heritage SiteThe abbey church in Vxc3xa9zelayLocationBurgundy, FranceCriteriaCultural: i, viReference84Inscription1979 (3rd session)Area183 haBufferxc2xa0zone18,373 haWebsitewww.basiliquedevezelay.orgCoordinates47xc2xb027xe2x80xb259xe2x80xb3N 3xc2xb044xe2x80xb255xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf47.46639xc2xb0N 3.74861xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 47.46639; 3.74861Coordinates: 47xc2xb027xe2x80xb259xe2x80xb3N 3xc2xb044xe2x80xb255xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf47.46639xc2xb0N 3.74861xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 47.46639; 3.74861Location of Vxc3xa9zelayShow map of BurgundyVxc3xa9zelay Abbey (France)Show map of France | WIKI |
| Vxc3xa9zelay Abbey (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vxc3xa9zelay) is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vxc3xa9zelay in the east-central French department of Yonne. | WIKI |
| The church and hill at Vxc3xa9zelay were added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1979. | WIKI |
| The Benedictine abbey of Vxc3xa9zelay was founded,[2] as many abbeys were, on land that had been a late Roman villa, of Vercellus (Vercelle becoming Vxc3xa9zelay). | WIKI |
| Vxc3xa9zelay also stood at the beginning of one of the four major routes through France for pilgrims going to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, in the north-western corner of Spain. | WIKI |
| About 1050 the monks of Vxc3xa9zelay began to claim to hold the relics of Mary Magdalene, brought, they said, from the Holy Land either by their 9th-century founder-saint, Badilo, or by envoys despatched by him. | WIKI |
| [3] A little later a monk of Vxc3xa9zelay declared that he had detected in a crypt at St-Maximin in Provence, carved on an empty sarcophagus, a representation of the Unction at Bethany, when Jesus' head was anointed by Mary of Bethany, who was assumed in the Middle Ages to be Mary Magdalene. | WIKI |
| The monks of Vxc3xa9zelay pronounced this to be Mary Magdalene's tomb, from which her relics had been translated to their abbey. | WIKI |
| Mary Magdalene is the prototype of the penitent, and Vxc3xa9zelay has remained an important place of pilgrimage for the Roman Catholic faithful, though the actual claimed relics were torched by Huguenots in the 16th century. | WIKI |
| Floorplan of Vxc3xa9zelay shows the adjustment in vaulting between the choir and the new nave. | WIKI |
| Saint Bernard of Clairvaux preached at Vxc3xa9zelay in favor of a second crusade at Easter 1146, in front of King Louis VII. | WIKI |
| Thomas Becket, in exile, chose Vxc3xa9zelay for his Whitsunday sermon in 1166, announcing the excommunication of the main supporters of his English King, Henry II, and threatening the King with excommunication too. | WIKI |
| Vxc3xa9zelay was aplomb. | WIKI |
| Its litigious monastic community was prepared to defend its liberties and privileges against all comers:[4] the bishops of Autun, who challenged its claims to exemption; the counts of Nevers, who claimed jurisdiction in their court and rights of hospitality at Vxc3xa9zelay; the abbey of Cluny, which had reformed its rule and sought to maintain control of the abbot within its hierarchy; the townsmen of Vxc3xa9zelay, who demanded a modicum of communal self-government. | WIKI |
| The beginning of Vxc3xa9zelay's decline coincided with the well-publicized discovery in 1279 of the body of Mary Magdalene at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume in Provence, given regal patronage by Charles II, the Angevin king of Sicily. | WIKI |
| This discovery undermined Vxc3xa9zelay's position as the principal shrine of the Magdalene in Europe. | WIKI |
| After the Revolution, Vxc3xa9zelay stood in danger of collapse. | WIKI |
| The tympanum of the central portal of the Madeleine de Vxc3xa9zelay is different from its counterparts across Europe. | WIKI |
| When compared to contemporary churches such as St. Lazare d'Autun and St. Pierre de Moissac, the distinctiveness of Vxc3xa9zelay becomes apparent. | WIKI |
| "[6] This is true in most cases, but Vxc3xa9zelay is an exception. | WIKI |
| In a 1944 article, Adolf Katzenellenbogen interpreted Vxc3xa9zelay's tympanum as referring to the First Crusade and depicting the Pentecostal mission of the Apostles. | WIKI |
| Thirty years before the Vxc3xa9zelay tympanum was carved, Pope Urban II planned on announcing his call for a crusade at La Madeleine[citation needed]. | WIKI |
| In 1095, Urban altered his plans and preached for the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont, but Vxc3xa9zelay remained a central figure in the history of the crusades. | WIKI |
| Fifteen years after its completion, Bernard of Clairvaux chose Vxc3xa9zelay as the place from which he would call for a Second Crusade. | WIKI |
| Vxc3xa9zelay was even the staging point for the Third Crusade. | WIKI |
| It is appropriate, therefore, that Vxc3xa9zelay's portal reflect its place in the history of the crusades. | WIKI |
| The lintel of the Vxc3xa9zelay portal portrays the "ungodly" people of the world. | WIKI |
| The Vxc3xa9zelay lintel is, therefore, a political statement as well as a religious one. | WIKI |
| Vxc3xa9zelay's political motivation becomes all the more apparent when compared with contemporary portal designs from other churches around France. | WIKI |
| The Vxc3xa9zelay lintel is distinct, but some comparisons can be made between it and other Romanesque portal sculptures of the time. | WIKI |
| Vxc3xa9zelay's lintel is comparable to the St. Lazare lintel in Autun in that both show humans who have sinned. | WIKI |
| While the Vxc3xa9zelay lintel is devoted to the depiction of "heathens," the Autun lintel shows the damned souls on Judgment Day. | WIKI |
| "Gislebertusxc2xa0... began his career at Cluny, then worked on the original west facade at Vxc3xa9zelay, and c. 1120 moved to Autun. | WIKI |
| The goals of the two different tympana are reflected in their design; Autun is designed to frighten people back to church while Vxc3xa9zelay is designed as a political statement to support the crusades. | WIKI |
| The lower four compartments of the Vxc3xa9zelay tympanum show the nations that had already received the Gospels. | WIKI |
| The characters in the lower Vxc3xa9zelay compartments are regal and well proportioned. | WIKI |
| These acts are represented in the upper four compartments of the Vxc3xa9zelay tympanum. | WIKI |
| It is further evidence of the Vxc3xa9zelay portal's peculiar political motives. | WIKI |
| The central portion of the Vxc3xa9zelay tympanum continues this process of politicizing religion. | WIKI |
| The Vxc3xa9zelay Christ, however, is pictured contraposto with arms wide. | WIKI |
| The Vxc3xa9zelay tympanum is remarkable because it is so different. | WIKI |
| The Vxc3xa9zelay Christ is sending the Crusaders outxe2x80x94he is not judging them. | WIKI |
| A forbidding Christ placed upon the throne of judgment would have been out of place at Vxc3xa9zelay. | WIKI |
| That is why the traditional Romanesque Christ, with its angry stare, was replaced at Vxc3xa9zelay by a kind and welcoming Christ with arms wide open. | WIKI |
| In 1976, after more than eight centuries, Hugues Delautre, one of the Franciscan fathers previously in charge of servicing the Vxc3xa9zelay sanctuary, discovered that not only the orientation axis of La Madeleine, but also its internal structure, were determined according to the position of the earth relative to the sun. | WIKI |
| Letting himself be progressively informed by the Vxc3xa9zelay light, he so concludes: | WIKI |
| The church of St Mary Magdalene is a former French abbey established in Vxc3xa9zelay in Burgundy-Franche-Comtxc3xa9, in the department of Yonne. | UNESCO |
| Vxc3xa9zelay then became a centre of great importance for the West. | UNESCO |
| In 1217, Francis of Assisi chose the hill of Vxc3xa9zelay to found the first Franciscan establishment on French soil. | UNESCO |
| But it is the sculpted portal between the nave and the narthex which has brought universal fame to Vxc3xa9zelay. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (i): The church of St Mary Magdalene of Vxc3xa9zelay is a masterpiece of Burgundian Romanesque art. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (vi): In the 12th century, the hill of Vxc3xa9zelay was a choice location where medieval Christian spirituality, reaching a sort of paroxysm, gave rise to various and specific expressions, from prayer and chanson de geste to the Crusades. | UNESCO |
| Vxc3xa9zelay, the "eternal hill", has retained intact the landscape qualities of the site where its abbey was founded in the Early Middle Ages. | UNESCO |
| Inscribed in 1840 on the first List of Historic Monuments of France, the church of Vxc3xa9zelay is one of the first medieval buildings whose conservation was undertaken proactively, due solely to its historic and artistic merits. | UNESCO |
| The church and the public spaces of Vxc3xa9zelay belong to the commune, which is responsible for their conservation and development, under the scientific and technical control of the State. | UNESCO |