Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa

[4] In the autumn of 878, the river broke its banks, flooding and destroying the monastery (located near the river-bed) and causing a likely death toll of at least 12.

In 956 the building was refurbished and made more sumptuous; the main altar was consecrated on 30 September 974 by Garí, a monk from Cluny who led five southern monasteries.

[citation needed] Cesare Borgia probably never came to the abbey, although he was named by his father abbot of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa in 1494, one among many other revenue-earning titles, which he kept until 1498.

[6] The abbey was initially part of the territory of the County of Barcelona, then of the Kingdom of Majorca and the Principality of Catalonia within the Crown of Aragon.

[4] Some sculpture from the abbey found its way into a collection[7] of George Grey Barnard (1863–1938), a prominent American sculptor, and an avid collector and dealer of medieval art.

In 1914, Barnard opened his "Cloisters" exhibit on Fort Washington Avenue, New York, along with sculpture from a number of medieval sites.