Abbey of Saint Remi

The Abbey of Saint Remi is an abbey in Reims, France, based within the 6th century. Since 1099 it has conserved the relics of Saint Remi, the Bishop of Reims who transformed Clovis, King of the Franks, to Christianity at Christmas in AD 496, after he defeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Tolbiac. The gift basilica changed into the abbey church. It changed into consecrated with the aid of Pope Leo IX in 1049. The 11th-century nave and transepts, in the Romanesque style, are the oldest; the facade of the south transept is the most latest.

The difficult to understand origins of the exquisite abbey at Reims lie in a touch 6^th century chapel committed to Saint Christopher. By the 9th century the abbey possessed about 700 domains and changed into possibly the most richly endowed in France. It appears possibly that secular monks had been the first guardians of the relics, however have been succeeded via the Benedictines. From 780 to 945 the archbishops of Reims served as its abbots. At the abbey Charlemagne obtained Pope LeoIn 1005, the abbot Aviard undertook to rebuild the church of St Remy and for 20 years the paintings went on uninterruptedly earlier than vaulting collapsed, no doubt from insufficient buttressing.