WELCOME! ABBEY SAINT-VICTOR, PARIS Saint Victor's Abbey, Paris (Abbey of Saint Victor) In the year 1108, the famous William of Champeaux, archdeacon of Notre-Dame in Paris, who had been lecturing to crowds of students, relinquishing his chair, retired to a small hermitage dedicated to Saint Victor, the martyr soldier, near the city. Here he was followed by many of his disciples, Abelard among them, and induced again to take up his lectures. Hence the origin of the Royal Abbey and School of Saint Victor. With some of his followers, William had become a canon regular, but, at the request of Saint Bernard he was made Bishop of Châlons in 1113, and was succeeded at Saint Victor's by Gildwin, a man, as the " Necrologium " records, of piety and learning, and zealous in promoting the canonical order. The abbey, by the generosity of popes, kings, queens, and noblemen, was soon richly endowed. Numerous religious houses of canons regular were reformed by its canons. Saint G...