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Ideal plan of Weingarten Abbey, 1723 Weingarten, showing the abbey buildings on the Martinsberg, 1917. Weingarten Abbey or St. Martin's Abbey (German: Reichsabtei Weingarten until 1803, then merely Abtei Weingarten) is a Benedictine monastery on the Martinsberg (St. Martin's Mount) in Weingarten near Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg ().
The tomb of Saint Martin was rediscovered on 14 December 1860, which aided in the 19th-century revival of the popular devotion to St. Martin. After the radical Paris Commune of 1871, there was a resurgence of conservative Catholic piety, and the church decided to build a basilica to Saint Martin.
A jamb statue is a figure carved on the jambs of a doorway or window. These statues are often human figures-typically religious figures or secular or ecclesiastical leaders. [ 1 ] Jambs are usually a part of a portal , accompanied by lintel and trumeau .
Basilica of Saint-Martin d'Ainay, a Romanesque church in Lyon, France; Taal Basilica, the Minor Basilica of Saint Martin of Tours, in Batangas, Philippines; Basilica of St. Martin, Bingen am Rhein, a Catholic church in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; Basilica of St. Martin, Weingarten, neighboring Weingarten Abbey, near Ravensburg, Baden ...
The Cologne text Aedidius Gelenius, a catalogue of local saints, mentions in the 1645 edition a possible origin for the church in pre-Carolingian times.The missionaries Viro and Plechelmus, who later were affiliated with the Kaiserswerth cloister, are said to have come to the Rhine, to found monasteries and churches.
In the town center, the Evangeline Oak is the legendary meeting place of the two lovers, Evangeline and Gabriel. A statue of Evangeline marks her supposed grave next to St. Martin of Tours Church. The state historic site commemorates the broader historical setting of the poem in the Acadian and Creole culture of this region of Louisiana.
A Benedictine priory was founded on the Lyon peninsula in 859. When later it was raised to the rank of an abbey, major building works began: the abbey church was built at the end of the 11th century under Abbot Gaucerand, [5] consecrated on 29 January 1107 and dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours by Pope Pascal II.
The Saint-Martin-au-Val Sanctuary is a monumental Gallo-Roman temple complex still undergoing excavation in Chartres. [1] It is one of the largest sanctuaries from Roman Gaul and is notable for its rare preservation of an ornate wooden ceiling. [2] It featured a cult site to Diana and Apollo. [2] [3]