Saint-André church in Saint-André

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Saint-André-de-Sorède Abbey is a former Benedictine Romanesque abbey located in Saint-André, in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales and the Occitanie region. It is classified as a historical monument.

History: The Benedictine monastery of Saint Andrew was founded in the High Middle Ages. Fleeing Spain, Abbé Miro and his monks came to settle on the lands that Louis the Pious gave them in 823. Subsequently, the village of Saint-André formed around the abbey. Built on an old Gallo-Roman soil around the year 900, ruined by successive invasions, the abbey was rebuilt and consecrated on November 11, 1121, the twelfth year of reign of the king of France Louis VI, under the pontificate of Pope Calixte II and while Gausfred III is Count of Roussillon. At the request of Philip II, king of Spain, Pope Clement VIII attached the abbey of St Andrew of Sorède to the abbey of St Mary of Arles-sur-Tech. The union bubbles are dated August 13, 1592. Since then, the Abbey of Sorède has no more religious and there are eight in Arles Abbey.