Holyrood Abbey Holyrood Abbey Holyrood Abbey is a ruined abbey of the Canons Regular in Edinburgh, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1128 by King David I. During the 15th century, the abbey guesthouse was developed into a royal residence, and after the Scottish Reformation the Palace of Holyroodhouse was expanded further. The abbey church was used as a parish church until the 17th century, and has been ruined since the 18th century. The remaining walls of the abbey lie adjacent to the palace, at the eastern end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile. The site of the abbey is protected as a scheduled
Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache Abbey in France in the suite of Marie de' Medici, chaplain and counselor of Kings Henri IV and Louis XIII, restores the abbey. The facade and nave date from the classic Abbot Mornat. The monastic buildings around the cloister were rebuilt in the eighteenth century. An outstanding set of murals depicting the life of St. Benedict dating from the sixteenth century was unearthed in the north gallery of the cloister and was the subject of a restoration. The church also houses an early 18th-century (1714) organ built by Jean Boizard, which was made a historical monument in 1950 and is maintained