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Title: Peeps into Picardy
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Craufurd, W. D Manton, E Manton, E. A
Subjects: Picardy (France) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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with several of hisconverts. This monastery was richly endowed by Dago-bert, who had been greatly impressed by the pietyand zealousness of its founder, the latter havingopenly rebuked the king for his iniquities. Inorder to find greater opportunities for meditation,the holy St. Riquier frequently retired to theforest of Crecy close by, and there, under thebeautiful oaks with which the forest is so richlyendowed, he died, his body being taken to themonastery for interment. Later Charlemagnehad the tomb opened and the remains of St.Riquier placed in a golden casket. ^ About the year 800 the abbey was entirelyrebuilt upon a much larger scale by the abbot,St. Angilbert. Upon the site of the old buildingshe erected three churches : the largest of thesewas dedicated to St. Riquier, and was for theperiod very richly decorated; an elaboratemosaic flooring in the choir being particularlyremarkable. This flooring existed till the end » Gilberts Description Historique de IAbbaye de St. Riquier.
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I4o) ST. RIQUIER 141 of the XV c.—in 1785 workmen digging near theremains of the ancient buildings came acrossfragments of the mosaic, which can now be seenin Abbeville. At the end of the ix c. the Normans—whosedestructive poUcy can hardly be regretted whenthe fact is remembered that in nearly all casesthe heavy Byzantine churches were replaced byGothic—burnt the abbey and the three churches.The abbey was immediately restored by theefforts of the monks. Ac-.ording to an old legend, in 981, Arnoul,Count of Flanders, desired to possess the bodyof St. Riquier and removed it to the abbey ofSt. Bertin at St. Omer, his capital, wishing,doubtless, to attract the stream of pilgrims tothe latter church. In despair the monks of St.Riquier appealed to Hugues Capet, who marchedat the head of an army to St. Omer and demandedthe body. Arnoul in the meanwhile had sent itto Montreuil, whither Capet followed in pursuit,rescued the body of the saint, and, with headuncovered and bare feet, carried

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