. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . 26o THE VALLEY OF THE TET AND CANIGOU fountain. The village belonged to the abbey from theninth century. In 1342 a charter gave the placecomplete municipal organization. Till a few years agoa gate belonging to the fortifications might still beseen. Many interesting buildings are within easy reach ofPrades. Of these the first to be visited will probably be the Abbey ofS. Michel de Cuxa inthe Valley of theRibereta, called alsothe River of Taurinya—anciently the Llit-era. Opposite Codaletthe Font de Lli
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . 26o THE VALLEY OF THE TET AND CANIGOU fountain. The village belonged to the abbey from theninth century. In 1342 a charter gave the placecomplete municipal organization. Till a few years agoa gate belonging to the fortifications might still beseen. Many interesting buildings are within easy reach ofPrades. Of these the first to be visited will probably be the Abbey ofS. Michel de Cuxa inthe Valley of theRibereta, called alsothe River of Taurinya—anciently the Llit-era. Opposite Codaletthe Font de Lliteramay still be valley comprisesthe territories of Co-dalet and Taurinya,with the abbey,founded in 878 or 879,and one of the mostflourishing in the dis-trict. The Abbot wasaccorded episcopalhonours, and hadjurisdiction over fifteen parishes, of which he was tem-poral lord also. The will of Abbot Protasius (f 879)shows that it then possessed a library of thirty PLAN OF ABBEY OF S. MICHEL DE CUXA. ABBEY OF S. MICHEL DE CUXA 261 a very large one for the period. Its reputation forsanctity attracted distinguished neophytes, as, forinstance, S. Pietro Orseolo, the sainted Doge of Venice,who was so carried away by the eloquence of AbbotGuarin during his visit to Venice at the end of the tenthcentury that he followed him hither, notwithstandingthe prayers of his family and the Senate. A legendrelates that he had a cell outside the convent, where hespent much time in prayer, returning to sleep withinthe walls. One night he found the gate shut, and couldnot enter, so he set himself to pray, when two angelsappeared with a ladder, by the aid of which he scaledthe wall ! He died in 977. Many gifts were made to the monastery by theCounts of Ronssillon, of Besalu, and Barcelona. Acopy of the original donation of Count Seniof redus, madein 1267, exists. Giovanni de Medici, Archbishop ofNarbonne, and afterwards Pope Clement VII. (1516),was Abbot of S. Miche
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