. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . enne de Muret (1046-1124), son of the Viscount of Thiers and founder ofthe Order of Grandmont in Limousin, and St. Peterthe \eiierable (1092-1156),of the Montboissier familyof Aiivergne, noted as a writer and Abbot of famous Jansenists were natives of Clermont:Blaise Pascal, author of the Pens^es (1623-62); theArnauld family, and Soanen (1647-1740), Bishop ofSenez. famous for his stubborn op|>osition to the Bull■Unigeiiitus O
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . enne de Muret (1046-1124), son of the Viscount of Thiers and founder ofthe Order of Grandmont in Limousin, and St. Peterthe \eiierable (1092-1156),of the Montboissier familyof Aiivergne, noted as a writer and Abbot of famous Jansenists were natives of Clermont:Blaise Pascal, author of the Pens^es (1623-62); theArnauld family, and Soanen (1647-1740), Bishop ofSenez. famous for his stubborn op|>osition to the Bull■Unigeiiitus On the other hand the city of Riomwas the birthjilace of Sirmond, the learned Jesuit(), confessor to Louis XIII and editor ofthe ancient councils of Gaul. Other natives worthyof mention in church history were the Abb6 Delille,poet (17:.s-isi:3), and Montlosier, the publicist (), famous for his memoir against the Jesuits andto whom Bishop Ferou refused ecclesiastical Urban II came to Clermont in 1095 to presideat the organization of the First Crusade; Pope Pas-chal II visited the city in 1106, Callistus II in 1120,. Church of Notke-Dame du Port, Clermont-Ferranmi (Eleventh < enf ury Romanesque) Innocent II in 1130, Alexander III in 1164. and, in1166, St. Thomas Beckct. It was also at Clermontthat, in 1262, in presence of St. Louis, the marriage ofPhilip the Bold and Isabella of Aragon was solem-nized. The cathedral of Clermont, dating from thethirteenth and fourteenth centuries, is not of equalarchaeological importance with the church of Notre-Dame du Port, which stands to-day as it was rebuiltin the eleventh century, and is one of the most beauti-ful of Romanesque churches in the Auvergnese of the capitals in Notre-Dame du Port, ascribedto the eleventh century, is among the most ancientsculptured representations of the Assumption of theBlessed Virgin. This cathedral is much frequentedas a place of pilgrimage, as are also Notre Dame
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