Each in turn on his formal entry into Dijon came to the abbey church of St. Bénigne to take oath to defend the special privileges of his capital.
St. Bénigne of Dijon is a secondary church compared with its neighbors, the cathedrals of Bourges and Lyons.
Far surpassing in interest the somewhat pinchbeck Gothic upper church of St. Bénigne is its crypt, the oldest Romanesque monument in Burgundy.
A century later Abbot Jarenton of St. Bénigne invited monks from Cluny to reanimate the spiritual life of his monastery.
These rough designs on the capitals of St. Bénigne are, as it were, the first stutterings of the national pæans in praise of God and country that are the imaged portals of Gothic cathedrals.
The upper part of the design betrays the same fault as at St. Bénigne de Dijon.
Gothic art was not always well inspired in Burgundy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; and St. Bénigne is no exception to the rule.
Opposite to St. Bénigne is a typical Burgundian church of the twelfth century, with a triple porch and narthex, an octagonal tower, and a beautiful Romanesque south doorway.
In the second century of the Christian era, Saint Bénigne and his companions, coming from Asia, brought the Gospel of Christ into Burgundy.
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet was of good bourgeois, or middle-class, stock.
The Cathedral of St. Bénigne is an outgrowth from the old abbey church, from which the Italian monk, Guillaume, set forth to found that remarkable series of monasteries in Normandy and Brittany.
Bénigne Basset placed a post at intervals on either side of this road, affixing the leaden stamp of the seminary to each.
Hitherto Maisonneuve had acted as administrator of justice, but now the seigneurs named Charles d'Ailleboust des Musseaux as judge and retained Bénigne Basset as clerk of the Seigneurs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nigne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
