The menhir of Cross-Saint-Roch

He draws his name from an iron cross devoted to Saint Roch who was placed at his top at the beginning of the Middle Ages.

Testimony of the Rochias abbot:

“Sunday which followed the festival of the Saint Roch, the populations of Saint Nectary and Sapchat returned processionnellement to this menhir, called for this fact “cross of Roch Saint”. They came to achieve a wish there, makes formerly the saint by the ancestors, at the time of a frightening plague, and after which the plague had suddenly ceased. One deposited the relics on a table of dolmen which is with the feet of the menhir: crowd knelt while, upright close to the megalith, the priest asked god, to remember the wish of the ancestors it, to bless the prostrate people in front of him, the fields and the harvests which extended to far, the animals finally, servants and feeder of the man and to move away all the plagues from them.”

The cross does not exist any more, and hones it found its initial aspect.

If an about NORTH-SOUTH line is taken, one will also find the dolmen of Sapchat in the south, (beautiful stone with cup parallel with an earth current marked by grass of different color), then a beautiful door of life on other side of the valley, (with far the castle from Murol), then Saint Roch.