. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . d her sonClotaire III en-dowed it richlywith lands andprivileges. Thelatter were subse-quently confirmedby Popes BenedictIII and NicholasI. The first monkscame from Lux-euil, Theodefridbeing the firstabbot. Under , theninth abbot, themonastic school ofCorbie attainedgreat celebrity andabout the sametime it sent fortha colony to found the abbey of Cor^ey in Inll.!7 a fire destroyed the monastic buildings but theywere rebuil
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . d her sonClotaire III en-dowed it richlywith lands andprivileges. Thelatter were subse-quently confirmedby Popes BenedictIII and NicholasI. The first monkscame from Lux-euil, Theodefridbeing the firstabbot. Under , theninth abbot, themonastic school ofCorbie attainedgreat celebrity andabout the sametime it sent fortha colony to found the abbey of Cor^ey in Inll.!7 a fire destroyed the monastic buildings but theywere rebuilt on a larger scale. Commendatory abbotswere introduced in 1550, amongst those that held thebenefice being Cardinal Mazarin. The somewhatdrooping fortunes of the abbey were revived in 1618,when it was one of the first to be incorporated intothe new Congregation of Saint^jMaur. At its sup-pression in 1790 the buildings were partly demolished,but the church remains to this day, witli its imposingportal and western towers. One of the most produced by Corbie was Paschasius Radbert(d. 805), the first to write a comprehensive treatise on. Church of St. Stephens, Corbie CORBINIAN 356 CORCORAN the Blessed Sacrament. In the controversy to whichthis work gave rise, his chief opponent was Ratram-nus, one of his own monks, whose views, however, areat variance with Cathohc teaching; both treatises areprinted in Migne, P. L., CXX-CXXI. The library ofCorbie, rich and extensive, was removed to Saint-Germain-des-Pres in 1624. , Liies of St. Bathilde and Bl. Theodcfrid in ActaSanctorum 0. ,S. B. smc. II. (Venice, 1733); Sainte-JIarthe,Gallia Christiana (Paris, 1728), X, 1263; Migne, Did. desabbayes (Paris, 1856); Seiters in Kirchenlex, III, 1088-89;Chevalier, Topo-bibliogr. (Paris, 1894-99), 793-94, good bib-liography. A view of the abbey, as it was before suppression,is given in Dblacourt and Delisle, Monasticon Gallicanum(Paris, 1871), II, pi. 76. G. Cyprian Alston. Co
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