Talk:Vézelay Abbey

message: There's a caption under the photograph of the interior of the Cathedral, which reads "At 2:27 p.m. on the 23rd of June 1976 in the nave of the Vézelay basilica, Father Hugues Delautre o.f.m. made an appointment with the sun, at this precise instant in culmination above the earth, in order that its light manifests to him the secrete of the edifice."  I confess that I can't make much sense of this. Can someone explain or edit this? Bricology (talk) 19:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can anyone explain the gibberish caption? 

message: While the text describes the original tympanum which sits over the gate that's nowadays inside the church, the picture shows the tympanum of the outer entrance, which was added in the nineteenth century under supervision of Viollet Le Duc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.153.33.202 (talk) 07:16, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "To understand the meaning of this objective sign, Father Hugues Delautre refers to the 12th-century texts (Suger, Peter the Venerable, Honorius of Autun) and long inhabits the monument with the symbolic mentality of that time for which sense reveals itself from sensitive signs through the anagogical method (literally ascent towards the uncreated) where the look goes beyond the reality of the sign to reach the invisible, i.e. God and his mystery. Letting himself be progressively informed by the Vézelay light, he so concludes:"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.211.202.131 (talk) 14:22, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

text: All the images used have shown the right tympanum for a good long time. Johnbod (talk) 17:00, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tympanum: wrong illustration 

message: I hesitate to correct La Madaleine into La Madeleine, since I do not know the reason for `La Madaleine', but it strikes me as incorrect. La Madaleine occurs twice on the page, one of which in the title and therefore the url-address, La Madeleine occurs at least 4 times in the English text. However, if I change La Madaleine into La Madeleine, the url should also change and I'm not sure how all this works. Anyone have an insight? Frank W (talk) 11:37, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Frank, your comment has spurred me on to doing something I had been planning to do for ages, that is to say, I have boldly, if not high-handedly, reverted the name of the article to what it was previously, which is to say, Vézelay Abbey. The name you queried was wrong in several ways, as you point out: it was mis-spelt ("Madeleine" is the right spelling), and it is not what the place is most commonly called in English (even if it is "La Madeleine" in French) which is where the article should be. As far as I'm aware that is Vézelay Abbey, and the previous re-naming was an error on the part of the editor that moved it. I'm sorry for not discussing it first. Please see :WP:RM and open a discussion according to the instructions there if you would still like a full discussion on where this page should be, but wherever that is, it is most certainly not at its previous name. Jsmith1000 (talk) 13:16, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbey of La Madaleine or Abbey of La Madeleine? 

message: ("History" section, beginning of 5th paragraph.) In or out of context, it makes no sense.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.17.102.96 (talk) 13:57, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does "Vezelay was aplomb" mean? 

message: Hi 
These images of the Abbey may be useful for this article, 
File:Vézelay, Church and Hill-121203.jpg
File:Vézelay, Church and Hill-121202.jpg
File:Vézelay, Church and Hill-121201.jpg
Thanks 
John Cummings (talk) 14:56, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potentially useful images 

message: Substituted at 10:05, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Hello all- Today I made some edits to the above-named section, during which I also changed the section heading from "Alignment with the sun" to the current one. This section was obviously translated essentially directly from the corresponding one in the fr.wp article (:fr:Basilique_Sainte-Marie-Madeleine_de_Vézelay#Les_alignements_de_la_lumière_naturelle). For the moment, I decided to delete the second part of the section, which although interesting, is 1) somewhat unencyclopedic in style (like its French counterpart), 2) wanting of translation revision, and 3) unsourced. I think we can presume that the sourcing for the original French text, especially of the quote, would likely be one or both of the works by Hugues Delautre that are cited at the end of the first paragraph. I have scoured the internet, so far to no avail, trying to find those texts in French or English. So for the time being I've parked the text in the below quote frame. I've also included the initial translation revision I began on the pre-quotation part in the second quote frame:
Eric's partial translation:
I also did a lot of work on the citations there, including adapting  as best I could to accommodate what I think are articles put out by a now-defunct publisher/publication called , which I treated as a magazine for the purposes of the citation. I would welcome any help or comments. Happy to go on a fact-finding quest to Vézelay if the Wikimedia community wants to crowd-source my fare... Eric talk 21:37, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Astronomical alignment" section