. Voyages dans les Pyrénées : y compris l'Andorre et la côte de Barcelone à Carcassonne. soir, avec un récipient de cristal pour la sainte hostie. Chapitre III ST. MARTIN DU CANIGOU ; LA VIE-HISTOIRE DE L'ABBAYE DE ACATALAN Abbeyof Les débuts de la Saint Martin du Canigoudate retour à l'assistance le plus tôt au 11ème siècle ; et, en dépit de vicissitude et dis-aster et l'extinction d'un si greata de temps, il survivesto ce jour un merveilleux recordof son origine et le sort il interveningcenturies thatbefell au cours de la. Parmi les fadedarchives thattownlet de Villefranche, des Vaubans par l

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. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. soir, with a crystal receptacle for the sacred Host. CHAPTER III ST. MARTIN DU CANIGOU; THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ACATALAN ABBEY The beginnings of the Abbeyof St. Martin of the Canigoudate back to the earliest yearsof the eleventh century; and, in spite of vicissitude and dis-aster and the lapse of so greata space of time, there survivesto this day a marvellous recordof its origin and the fate thatbefell it during the interveningcenturies. Amongst the fadedarchives of Villefranche, thattownlet of Vaubans by thewayside, which so many atraveller passes by as unworthyof notice, there is still pre-served an old vellum of theyear 1007, recording the grantof lands at Vernet, at Llupia, and at Millas, to the endthat a primitive little chapel of St. Martin on the slopes ofthe Canigou might be converted into a Benedictine abbeyand the abode of a community of pious men. Even earlierthan this there is record of pious endowments in favour ofthe little chapel, high up there amidst the mountain solitudes.. MARTIN DU CANIGOU, NEARVERNET-LES-BAINS 80 TRAVELS IN THE PYRENEES and one cannot tell for how many hundreds, perhaps eventhousands, of years before some act of worship had beenperformed in this remote sanctuary. The world is so mucholder than we think; and the green pastures up there musthave tempted the shepherd lad, fluting to his Pan, long yearsbefore the magnanimous St. Martin was born. Some earlyPhoenician trader may have been led by the glorious snows ofthe Canigou to leave his galley by the seas edge and adventurewith a few chosen companions up this valley on a summerday; and the Roman settler, refreshing his limbs in theluxurious waters that have gushed out here from the bowelsof the mountains since human time began, must often haveclimbed amidst these solitudes. Here, at any rate, in the year looo stood a little chapel of Christ, while down in the sunlit valley at Corneilla there rose

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