Chapelle Sainte-Glossinde de Metz

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The Abbey of Sainte-Glossinde is the church of an ancient Benedictine abbey founded around 604 by Glossinde de Champagne (580–610), in the city of Metz, then capital of the Kingdom of Austrasia. It has been redesigned over the centuries and still exists, the abbey being the seat of the bishopric of Metz since 1802.

Foundation and Middle Ages: Part of the cellars are Gallo-Roman cryptoportics, which were probably used as warehouses in Roman times.

Around 604, during the reign of Thibert II, a young girl of the Franque nobility of Austrasie, Glossinde, daughter of the Duke of Champagne Wintrio, head of the leudes of Austrasie, refuses the claim that he wants to marry him after having executed his fiancé Obolen, and takes refuge in the cathedral of Metz surrounded by his father's troops. After six days of prayer and fasting, an angel appears and covers the head of Glossinde from the veil of nuns. Her father, resigned, offered her a residence near the ramparts where she founded the first Benedictine community of Metz, which was soon populated by a hundred virgins consecrated to God. Glossinde died six years later, on July 25, just thirty...