Conques Abbey 2
 Abbey
in 1833 ( Chapuis's picture)
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Conques Abbey 2
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Abbey
in 1833 ( Chapuis's picture)
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before Conques Legends about Conques
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A text in the Doat's collection contains 3 stories about the beginnings of the monastery which let us perplexed because they take place before Dadon came in Conques. Are they only legends or truths hided under the imaginary stories? A. The
first story is situated in the IVth century when in History a great number of
hermits surge on Western Europe.
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| B. The second story relates the murder of monks by the Franks of Théodebert, a Clovis's grandson, in context of Rouergue's pacification in the VIth century. That expedition is situated in 533 according to the Franks History. That massacre seems completely incomprehensible from Franks become Christians by the Clovis's baptism in 498 and the first supports of Church. Moreover, any known monastery has suffered with that kind of exaction in Rouergue. |
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C. The third story at last relates a new massacre by Sarrazins in 730, a date which just got ahead of Dadon's arrival in Conques. |
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3 stories have a common trait: they relate the history of a
not yet existent monastery. The errors in dates are too much gross for
not to be voluntary. But what monastery these legends talk about? These
legendary stories about Conques's history can be considered
with 2 ways: either we look it like a pure invention, without
it would be possible to understand interest of it, or
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If
we resolve to consider these events had a historical basis, they only can concern
the monastery from where Dadon and his companions were gone to found Conques in
the VIIIth century. By its geographical situation and the unknown episodes of
its history, Perse would be that monastery of origin.
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| Perse: Conques's daughter or mother ? |
