Abbaye de Gellone or Abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, former Benedictine abbey, located in the commune of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert in the Hérault department of France.
Founded shortly before 804 by Saint Guillaume de Gellone, later known in Occitan as Guilhèm, a former Count of Toulouse and close associate of Charlemagne.
The abbey possessed a fragment of the True Cross given to Guilhem by Charlemagne, which made it an important place of pilgrimage in medieval times.
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