{"id":348,"date":"2012-10-09T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2012\/10\/saint-denis-kings-and-architecture.html"},"modified":"2016-03-25T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T00:53:15","slug":"saint-denis-kings-and-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2012\/10\/saint-denis-kings-and-architecture.html","title":{"rendered":"Saint Denis, kings and architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Today the Church\u00a0remembers\u00a0the first bishop of Paris, Saint Denis, martyred in the third century during the reign of Emperor Decius. \u00a0Saint Denis is easy to identify in Christian art since as seen above, he is always depicted holding his head with a bishop\u2019s miter on top. \u00a0It is said that after being martyred by decapitation at Montmartre, the highest hill of Paris, Denis arose, picked up his head and walked several miles outside the city to the place where he wished to be buried. \u00a0A small chapel was built to mark the burial site of Saint Denis and it soon became a pilgrimage destination.<\/div>\n
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In time a prestigious Benedictine abbey was built and it became the burial site for the kings of France. \u00a0From Clovis, the first king of the Franks in the fifth century to Louis XVI, the Basilica of Saint Denis\u00a0became the royal mausoleum. \u00a0During the French Revolution all the tombs were desecrated, the remains of the royals dumped into a mass grave nearby, the abbey was suppressed and left in disrepair.<\/div>\n
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Tombs of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette<\/span><\/div>\n
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Once the monarchy was restored in France after Napoleon\u2019s defeat, the jumbled remains of the monarchs were placed in the crypt of Saint Denis, leaving the tombs in the church empty inside. \u00a0A small plaque in the crypt marks their resting place. \u00a0When I visited the crypt and read the plaque, I\u00a0remember\u00a0thinking, \u201call the glory and comforts they enjoyed in life and attempted to have even in death with this magnificent mausoleum, yet here they are just like everyone else.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The abbots of Saint Denis were powerful men in France, yet the most famous among them is Abbot Suger due to his vision to make the basilica more magnificent. \u00a0In the twelfth century, Suger ordered the rebuilding of sections of the church in a different style to increase the entry of natural light. \u00a0The first section rebuilt was the apse of the basilica, giving the world the first example at what became known as Gothic architecture. \u00a0The beauty of Suger\u2019s style spread throughout France, making Saint Denis the model for French medieval cathedrals with their pointed arches, flying buttresses, well-lit interiors and \u00a0vertical emphasis. \u00a0The Gothic style spread beyond France into Europe giving us some of the most magnificent\u00a0man-made\u00a0structures of the continent.<\/div>\n
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The first attempt at Gothic architecture, the apse of Saint Denis<\/div>\n
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Tomb of Clovis, First King of the Franks, baptized in 496 by Saint Remigius in Remis, the coronation site for all French kings since Clovis.<\/div>\n
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Sculpture depicting the Baptism of Constantine, the Baptism of Christ and the Baptism of Clovis, Basilica of Saint Remi, Reims<\/div>\n
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Tomb of King Charles Martel, who defeated the Arabs at the Battle of Tours in 732, halting the Arab invasion of Europe from the west and containing them in the Iberian Peninsula.<\/div>\n
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Today the Church\u00a0remembers\u00a0the first bishop of Paris, Saint Denis, martyred in the third century during the reign of Emperor Decius. \u00a0Saint Denis is easy to identify in Christian art since as seen above, he is always depicted holding his head with a bishop\u2019s miter on top. \u00a0It is said that after being martyred by decapitation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSaint Denis, kings and architecture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today the Church\u00a0remembers\u00a0the first bishop of Paris, Saint Denis, martyred in the third century during the reign of Emperor Decius. \u00a0Saint Denis is easy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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