Burgundy excelled in monastic architecture--The cradle of three great cloistral centers--Luxeuil, Cluny, Cîteaux--Luxeuil, founded by St. Columbanus (610), reorganized the VII century--Cluny, Christendom's supremest monastic congregation, founded 910--St. Hugues of Cluny (1049 to 1109) trained the leaders who remade Europe's civilization--Peter the Venerable, abbot from 1120 to 1156, continued building Cluny's vast church--Abélard died in a Cluny house, 1142--Revolution destroyed the glorious abbatial church--Paray-le-Monial, the favorite priory of Abbot Odilo (d. 1049) of Cluny, initiator of the Truce of God--Its Romanesque church has fluted pilasters (XII century)--Autun Cathedral's Romanesque portal the ancestor of the sculptured doors of Gothic cathedrals--Abbey church at Saulieu (note)--Beaune's collegiate of Notre Dame has lovely tapestries--Hôtel Dieu at Beaune (1444 to 1457), founded by Nicolas Rolin, contains Roger van der Weyden's best work--Hospital hall at Tonnerre (founded 1293) the prototype for Beaune's hospice--Fontenay, the oldest Romanesque Cistercian church extant--Dedicated by Eugene III in 1147--Avallon's church of St. Lazare blessed by Paschal II in 1107--Has a well-known Romanesque entranceway. Some Primary Gothic churches in Burgundy--Montréal's collegiate can be visited from Avallon--Built by a returned crusader late in the XII century--Pontigny's abbatial the oldest Gothic in Burgundy--Its nave (1160 to 1180), with _bombé_ vaults, was begun as Romanesque--Its choir used structural features as decorations--Three archbishops of Canterbury, St. Thomas Becket, Stephen Langton, and St. Edmund Rich, found refuge at Pontigny--Vézelay's abbatial of the Madeleine the stateliest church in Burgundy--Its Romanesque nave and Gothic choir belong both to the XII century--Its imaged portico (c. 1132) a supreme work of French sculpture--Second Crusade preached by St. Bernard at Vézelay, 1146--Philippe-Auguste and Richard Coeur-de-Lion rallied here for the Third Crusade, 1191.