Notre-Dame of the Round of Chazeuil

On a monticule which skirts To combine it and the railroad, with some steps of the castle of Chazeuil, sélève the chappelle antique of the Round, dating from XIème century. A legend is attached to it: a statue of the virgin appears first of all initially in the church of Agonges close to Souvigny.

One day, the inhabitants wanted to replace it by a more elegant statue, and the first was relegated in an obscure corner. The following day, the antique image of Marie had taken again her throne of honor, while the new statue lay with ground. The sexton restores one and the other in their place, locking up the first statue in a cupboard of the sacristy.

This time still the virgin thwarted the project of the men and went to take refuge in the hollow of a young elm which one sees still today. A shepherd discovered it in this place, and soon the faithful ones reinstalled it in the church of Agonges, in the place which it occupied formerly. But the Madonna still disappeared, and this time, without return, of the country of Agonges, for reparaitre well later on the hill of the Round close to the castle of Chazeuil.

Terrible plagues afflicted this inhospitable region then. To désepoir was with its roof, when one day it was learned that a shepherd of the fôret of Briailles, close to Pourçain Saint, to seven or eight miles from there, had found a statue of the Blessed Virgin in the middle of the spines. The inhabitants of Chazeuil hastened to build a vault to him on the monticule of the Round, and those of Agonges, repenting, came every year, during long century, to make him honourable fine. 

The miraculous statue was hidden during the revolution, and was brought back later to its vault. In 1866, Mr. the Count de Montagnac, owner of the castle of chazeuil, took the initiative of a complete restoration. Every year, the Easter Monday, as well as first Sunday of October, the faithful ones are made very many there.

The statue is a virgin in wood majesty strengthened, polychrome, 76 cm height. The dress of the virgin is green, that of the red child. She is dated from XIIème century.