Because of these features the Luxeuil type is sometimes called " a-b type.

Columbanus ( 540 – 23 November 615 ;, meaning " the white dove ") was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries on the European continent from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil ( in present-day France ) and Bobbio ( Italy ), and stands as an exemplar of Irish missionary activity in early medieval Europe.

The young Theodoric, to whose kingdom Luxeuil belonged, was living a life of debauchery.

In Gallo-Roman religion, Luxovios, Latinized as Luxovius was the god of the waters of Luxeuil, worshipped in Gaul.

Soon, however, Leodegar too was defeated by Wulfoald and the Austrasians, and was himself confined at Luxeuil in 673.

Luxeuil Abbey was one of the oldest and best-known monasteries in Burgundy, located in the " département " of Haute-Saône in Franche-Comté, France.

The community was so large that choir followed choir in the chanting of the office, and at Luxeuil the laus perennis imported from Agaunum went on day and night.

Most of the earliest rule that was observed at Luxeuil derived from Celtic monastic traditions, whether or not written down by Columbanus, supplemented increasingly by the more formalized Benedictine Rule that was followed throughout the West, which provided for the abbot's orderly election, his relations with his monks, and the appointment of monastic officials and their delegated powers.

Columbanus was exiled from Luxeuil by Theuderic II of Austrasia and the dowager Queen Brunehaut.

He was succeeded as abbot by Saint Eustace of Luxeuil, the head of the monastic school, which under Eustace and his successor Saint Waldebert, established a high reputation.

In 1634 however the commendatory abbots ceased, and Luxeuil was joined to the reformed Congregation of St. Vanne.

The Corbie type as used in the 8th century, was based on uncial and the Luxeuil type, but was also similar to half-uncial and insular script, with elements of Roman cursive.

" The letter b is similar to Luxeuil type, but the letter a has a straight first stroke, resembling a combination of i and c. This type was used from the end of the 8th century until the mid-9th century.

The Chelles type was similar to the Luxeuil a-b type.

Jouffroy was appointed abbot of Luxeuil ( 1451?

Waldebert ( also known as Gaubert, Valbert and Walbert ), ( died c. 668 ), was a Frankish count of Guines, Ponthieu and Saint-Pol who became abbot of Luxeuil in the Benedictine Order, and eventually a canonized saint in the Roman Catholic Church, like several among his kinsmen who protected the Church, enriched it with lands and founded monasteries.

Like his predecessor at Luxeuil he was born of the noble Frankish family of Duke Waldelenus of Burgundy, highly influential in seventh-century Frankish politics and served in the military before dedicating himself to the contemplative life and joining the monastery at Luxeuil on the borders of Austrasia and Burgundy ( in modern-day France ), where he dedicated his weapons and armour, which hung in the abbey church for centuries.

He lived as a hermit close to the abbey until the death of the monastery's abbot, Saint Eustace of Luxeuil, when Waldebert was elected Luxeuil's third abbot ( c. 628 ).

He was abbot of the monastery for forty years, during which the school of Luxeuil trained the Frankish aristocrats who became bishops in the Frankish kingdoms ; Waldebert oversaw the move of the monastery from the Rule of St. Columban to the Benedictine Rule, though in the rule he drew up for the convent of Faremoutiers he drew upon the rules of Columbanus as well as Benedict, but made no mention whatsoever of a ritual of either profession or oblation.

Among numerous houses founded from Luxeuil during his tenure, he was instrumental in aiding Saint Salaberga found her convent at Laon.

Ebroin was interned at Luxeuil and Theoderic sent to St. Denis.

* Northvegr: Roman ruins of the baths at Luxeuil

-668 ), a Frankish count of Guinness, Ponthieu and Saint-Pol, and a Roman Catholic abbot of Luxeuil ( Benedictine Order )

Columbanus accordingly obtained from King Gontram the Gallo-Roman castle named " Luxovium " ( Luxeuil ), some eight miles distant from Annegray.

As we hear no further accusation on the Easter question — not even in those brought against his successor at Luxeuil Abbey, Eustasius of Luxeuil in 624 — it would appear that after Columbanus had moved to Italy, he gave up the Celtic Easter ( cf.

He sent a request that the king would always protect his monks at Luxeuil.

Among his principal miracles are: ( 1 ) procuring of food for a sick monk and curing the wife of his benefactor ; ( 2 ) escape from hurt when surrounded by wolves ; ( 3 ) obedience of a bear which evacuated a cave at his biddings ; ( 4 ) producing a spring of water near his cave ; ( 5 ) repletion of the Luxeuil granary when empty ; ( 6 ) multiplication of bread and beer for his community ; ( 7 ) curing of the sick monks, who rose from their beds at his request to reap the harvest ; ( 8 ) giving sight to a blind man at Orleans ; ( 9 ) taming a bear, and yoking it to a plough.

If Columbanus's abbey at Bobbio in Italy became a citadel of faith and learning, Luxeuil in France became the nursery of saints and apostles.

Gall and his companions established themselves with Columbanus at first at Luxeuil in Gaul.

In Burgundy he established a severe monastic rule at Luxeuil which mirrored that of Bangor.

Under the intellectual and spiritual stimulation of the Irish monks, the abbey at Luxeuil, dedicated to Saint Peter, soon became the most important and flourishing monastery in Gaul.

Seventh century work produced at Luxeuil.

Luxeuil sent out monks to found houses at Bobbio, between Milan and Genoa, where Columbanus himself became abbot, and monasteries at Saint-Valéry and Remiremont.

Abbatial palace at Luxeuil

Each region seems to have developed its own standards following the main monastery of the region ( i. e. Merovingian script, Laon script, Luxeuil script, Visigothic script, Beneventan script ), which are mostly cursive and hardly readable.

Nat., 9427 ) is a seventh century manuscript discovered by Mabillon in the Abbey of Luxeuil, but because among its very few saints ' days it contains the feast of St. Genevieve, Germain Morin, it has been attributed to Paris.

This from its position after the Conversion of St. Paul in the Gothicum, ought to be St. Peter's Chair at Antioch, 22 Feb .; but it will not work out as such with the two Sundays between it and the Epiphany and three between it and Lent, as it appears in the Luxeuil Lectionary ; so it must mean St. Peter's Chair at Rome, 18 Jan., which is known to have been the festival kept in Gaul ; three Sundays after St. Peter's Chair ( Luxeuil ); Initium Quadragesimae ; five Lenten Masses ( Gothicum ); Palm Sunday ( Luxeuil ); " Symboli Traditio " ( Gothicum ); Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week, called by the name still used in the Ambrosian Rite, Authentica Hebdomada ( Luxeuil ); Maundy Thursday ; Good Friday ; Easter Eve ; Easter Day and the whole week ; Low Sunday, called in both Clausum Paschae ; four more Sundays after Easter ( Luxeuil ); Invention of the Cross ( Gothicum, 3 May ); St. John the Evangelist ( Gothicum, 6 May ); three Rogation Days ; Ascension ; Sunday after Ascension ( Luxeuil ); Pentecost ; Sunday after Pentecost ( Luxeuil ); Sts.

Remiremont ( Latin: Romarici Mons ) derives its name from Saint Romaric, one of the companions of Saint Columban of Luxeuil, who in the seventh century founded Remiremont Abbey, a monastery and a convent on the hills above the present town.

A whole series of new monastic foundations under Irish influence sprang up, starting with Columbanus's foundations of Fontaines and Luxeuil, sponsored by the Frankish King Childebert II.

The town of Corbie grew up round Corbie Abbey, founded in 657 or 660 by the queen regent Bathilde, with a founding community of monks from Luxeuil Abbey in the Franche-Comté.

Then following Christmas Day ; St. Stephen ; St. John ( according to Luxeuil ); St. James and St. John ( according to the Gothicum, which agrees with the Hieronymian Martyrology and with a Syriac Menology of 412, quoted by Duchesne.

The " custom of Agaunum ", as it came to be called, spread over Gaul, to Lyons, Châlons, the Abbey of Saint Denis, to Luxeuil, Saint-Germain at Paris, Saint Medard at Soissons, to Saint-Riquier, and was taken up by the monks of Remiremont Abbey and Laon Abbey, though the Abbey of Agaunum had ceased to practice it from the beginning of the ninth century.

The first monks came from Luxeuil Abbey, which had been founded by Saint Columbanus in 590, and the Irish respect for classical learning fostered there was carried forward at Corbie.