Psalmody Abbey

Psalmody Abbey, also Psalmodie Abbey or Psalmodi Abbey (French: Abbaye de Psalmody, Psalmodi or Psalmodie), was a Benedictine abbey located near Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze in the Camargue, in the department of Gard and the region of Languedoc-Roussillon in the south of France.

Psalmody Abbey was founded in the 5th century by monks from the Abbey of St. Victor, Marseille. The purpose was perhaps to enjoy a favorable location for the installation of fisheries on the Rhone and saline in the marshes of delta1. The monks built on a small hill overlooking the surrounding marshes.

The new monastery acquired considerable importance and became directly accountable to Rome. Its influence grew throughout the region, mostly because of its trade in salt. The Abbey enjoyed the favor of successive emperors in 816, Louis the Pious granted protection, and in 851, Charles the Bald granted him certain privileges. To all this is added the act of 791, whereby Charlemagne confirmed the possessions of the abbey; although the charter is false and fabricated at the end of the tenth century or the next century, it is considered authentic at that time and therefore increases the prestige of the abbaye.

In 908, the monks fled the abbey in face of Saracen raids. From the beginning of the 10th century, salt marshes belonging to the monks are signalés whose production is marketed by river from the two small ports of the abbey, Notre Dame des Ports and Counc-Haute.

In 1004, an assembly of monks, clerics and knights took place and decided the reconstruction of the abbey, at the same time it receives its first possession overseas, Rhône.

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