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unusual facts about Moutier-Granval Bible



Adso of Montier-en-Der

Born of rich and noble parents, he was educated at Luxeuil Abbey, was called to Toul as instructor of the clergy, and made abbot of Moutier-en-Der in 960.

Corcelles, Bern

It is a ribbon village on the east end of the Grand Val (valley of Moutier), with some houses on Mont Raimeux.

Jouy-le-Moutier

Théophile Steinlen (1859–1923), a painter who lived and worked in Jouy-le-Moutier.

A viaduct crossing the Rue de la Vallée was built in 1912 carrying the CGB line from Maurecourt to Pontoise following the River Oise valley.

At the beginning of the 20th century the village saw the arrival of the railway.

Ken Allemann

Ken Allemann is a Karting and race car driver born in Moutier, Switzerland.

Moutier-Grandval Abbey

The Moutier-Granval Bible is an illuminated manuscript bible of about 840, which was probably written in Tours, France, perhaps specially for the abbey.

Moutier-Grandval Abbey was a Benedictine abbey near the villages of Moutier and Grandval in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

The abbot of Luxeuil, Saint Waldebert, sent Saint Germanus of Granfelden, who served 35 years as the first abbot, with Saint Randoald of Grandval as his prior.

Randoald of Grandval

Saint Randoald (Rancald, Randaut) (†21 February 675) was prior of the Benedictine monastery of Grandval in the Moutier valley, under saint Germanus.

Tête de Moine

Tête de Moine is currently produced by fewer than 10 cheese dairies of the Jura Mountains area of Porrentruy, District of Franches-Montagnes, both situated in the Canton of Jura, as well as in Moutier and Courtelary, in the Bernese Jura.

It was invented and initially produced more than eight centuries ago by the monks of the abbey of Bellelay, located in the community of Saicourt, district of Moutier, in the mountainous zone of the Bernese Jura, the French-speaking area of the Canton of Bern.


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