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- Vézelay (French: [vez(ə)lɛ]) is a commune in the department of Yonne in the north-central French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is a defensible...
- Vézelay Abbey (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay) is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the east-central French department...
- Museum of Art in New York City, and a rib in the Vezelay Abbey, the Basilica of Ste. Magdalene, in Vezelay France. The purported skull of Mary Magdalene...
- Paule Vézelay (1892–1984) was a British painter, known for her abstract art. Vézelay was born Marjorie Watson-Williams in Bristol, a daughter of a pioneering...
- Archivolts of Sainte-Anne Portal The Vézelay Abbey was built in France in the ninth century on a hill in the village of Vézelay by Benedictine Monks and became...
- On 31 March 1146, the French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached at Vézelay to encourage support for the Second Crusade. News from the Holy Land alarmed...
- Fontenay-près-Vézelay (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tnɛ pʁɛ vez(ə)lɛ], literally Fontenay near Vézelay) is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...
- Foissy-lès-Vézelay (French pronunciation: [fwasi lɛ vez(ə)lɛ], literally Foissy near Vézelay) is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...
- Jerusalem (1042–1119), born Jehan de Vezelay, a French Catholic religious leader, was the abbot of the monastery at Vézelay, France, as well as one of the founders...
- Western churches and monasteries, including those of Cluny, Cîteaux, and Vézelay. Cluny, founded in 910, exerted a strong influence in Europe for centuries...