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Gellone Abbey

804 · 9th century · Also known as Abbey of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

Gellone Abbey is a Benedictine abbey founded in 804 by William of Gellone, count of Toulouse, in a gorge of the Hérault valley in Languedoc. William retired there as a monk and died there, and his cult, with a relic of the True Cross, made the abbey a stop on the pilgrimage road to Santiago de Compostela. The village around it took the name Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert.

Gellone Abbey
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