Tuesday 4 December 2007

Vezelay,Yonne, France

St Bernard here on 31 March 1146 called for a Second Crusade.
King Richard the Lionheart met the french king here in 1190 before he departed for the Third Crusade.
The abbeyhas relics of Mary Magdalene.
Saint Francis of Assisi founded a monastery here about 1217

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