Even the aisles of Vézelay were not sufficient for the multitude of his hearers, and he preached to them in the open air, from a rock still pointed out on the hillside.
The Cluniac order even then had already declined from its first intention; and that decline became especially visible in the Abbey of Vézelay itself not long after Bernard's day.
The timid experiments of the Clunisian architects at Vézelay in the use of the pointed arch and vault-ribs also led, in the second half of the twelfth century, to far-reaching results.
Of the first type perhaps the best known example is the Burgundian church of La Madeleine at Vézelay (Yonne), (Fig.
For two centuries Provence allowed Vézelay to boast of the possession of the Blessed Magdalene's remains.
In Vézelay occurred two notable gatherings of mediæval history.
He was the brother of Peter the Venerable of Cluny, who had become prior of Vézelay at twenty years of age.
At Clermont and at Vézelay we don the crusaders' insignia with cries of enthusiasm.
The nave at Vézelay had no triforium, nor was there a tribune over the aisles.
He probably was the builder of the Romanesque choir to which was originally attached the actual nave, since there is record of a dedication ceremony at Vézelay in 1104.
She assisted at St. Denis' dedication and knew Abbot Suger well; at Vézelay she watched the Burgundians sculpting a portal of paradise.
Originally the church was consecrated to St. Nazaire, which name was changed to Lazare after the Burgundian abbey of Vézelay had spread the story that Mary Magdalene had died in Provence.
Vézelay in Burgundy, the birthplace of the reformer Theodore Beza, passed through a fiery ordeal.
Sansac next undertook to reduce Vézelay by hunger; but the Huguenots broke his lines, aided by their friends in La Charité and Sancerre, and supplied themselves abundantly with provisions.
Within a few weeks Vézelay was twice besieged by a Roman Catholic army under Sansac.
The fugitive Huguenots of the centre and north found the gates of Vézelay and of Sancerre open to them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zelay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
