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After lengthy controversy the relics in the cathedral were opened on 10 January 1715 and the 13th century inscriptions were taken to prove their authenticity. The vault of the 11th century church collapsed in 1751 and all the buildings were completely rebuilt in 1760. During the revolution the church became the parish church for the districts of La
Neuville and Boutillerie. Under the Terror it was changed into stables. It was again made a parish church in 1844.
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niches are arranged between pilasters with Doric capitals that support the triglyphic entablature, on which there is a triangular pediment. Under the choir there is a vault in the place where the body of Saint Firmin was miraculously discovered. The church holds several sarcophagi and 15th century bas-reliefs relating to the history of Saint Firmin. The church was protected as
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who had become
Jesuits after the restoration of that order. The seminary was crowded into the old abbey and an old auxiliary building, with a 3-story building thrown up in 1818 to hold a study hall and dormitory, and two nearby houses. An ancient stable on the farm beside the abbey was also used as a
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The abbey bought land in the
Neuville area in the 13th century and established vegetable gardens, from which it received payments from the cultivators. The plots were on drained marshland. Every year on a given date all the cultivators had to drain the canals around their plots and clean out all the
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of the first bishop-saints of Amiens mentions the church. The life of Firmin the Martyr relates that after he had been executed the senator
Faustinian took the body and buried it in his personal cemetery in "Abladana". His son Firmin the Confessor, later to be known as Saint-Acheul, built a church
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study hall. The seminary was home to almost 900 resident students. There were almost 60 Jesuits and perhaps as many lay workers. Despite the austere conditions, the college was well off compared to most such establishments. In 14 years the seminary educated 70 Jesuits, 550 priests and 8 bishops.
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The crypt under the church contains ancient tombs and bas-reliefs. It was discovered on 10 January 1697 during construction of a foundation for the main altar in the church. The monks claimed they had found the body of Saint Firmin, and said the relics in the Amiens
Cathedral were not authentic.
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and his vidame
Eustache. It was issued in the first year of Enguerran's rule, and praises his restoration of law and order. Throughout the 12th century the priory received much support from the bishops of Amiens. A monastery for the Augustinian canons regular was built by Bishop Tierry in 1145.
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The church has a classical sober stone architecture. The interior has a "Jesuit" style with a single span of 43 by 10 metres (141 by 33 ft) and a vault that reaches 35 metres (115 ft). The facade has a large door surrounded by pilasters with Tuscan-style capitals. Higher up a bay and
357:(1546–1611) were deposited in the library of the abbey by his descendant Pierre Poussemthe de L'Estoile when he died in 1718. Pierre Poussemthe de L'Estoile was the abbot of Saint-Acheul. The diaries were used as sources for various historical works on the period of
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over the tomb and was also buried there. Saint
Salvius, Bishop of Amiens in the 7th century, found the tombs of the two Saint Firmins and the martyrs Acius and Aciolus. He moved the four bodies to the eastern crypt of the cathedral.
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wild plants that had been growing in the waterways and on their banks. The monastery was rebuilt in the 14th century. In 1634 it was united with the church of Saint
Genevieve. The abbey was again rebuilt in the 17th–18th centuries.
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was suppressed in 1812, but was succeeded in 1816 after the fall of the Empire by the minor seminary of Saint-Acheul, staffed by the former teachers of the
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The bookseller Pierre Mongie took possession of L'Estoile's manuscripts after the abbey was dissolved, and they were later acquired by the Royal library.
365:. The abbey held a head of Saint John the Baptist, one of several such heads in churches of France before the revolution. It remained in use until 1790.
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became a monk. Bishop Rorico of Amiens established canons at Saint-Acheul in 1085. The foundation charter records donations to Saint-Acheul by Count
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The church is on the chaussée Jules-Ferry, Amiens, Somme. The location was once a site of Druid sacrifices, later the site of a Roman temple.
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in 1814. They are now occupied by the private Lycée Saint-Riquier. The abbey church is used as a parish church.
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