Abbey of Saint-Remi
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The Abbey of Saint-Remi is an abbey in Reims, France, founded in around AD 1000. It contains the relics of Saint Remi, a Bishop of Reims who converted Clovis, King of the Franks, to Christianity at Christmas in AD 496, after he defeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Tolbiac.
The basilica was consecreated by Pope Leo IX in 1049. The nave and transepts, in the Romanesque style, are the oldest; the façade of the south transept is the most recent.
Many valuable objects from the abbey were looted in the French Revolutionary period, but the 12th-century stained glass remains.
The Abbey of Saint-Remi, together with the nearby cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims and Palace of Tau, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991.
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