Sacred places

12 juin 2007

The black virgin of Meillers

Since always, Meillers and its area were devoted to the goddess-mother, then with the virgin. The black virgin of Meillers is a virgin in majesty of XI th century, which was strengthened in XV th. the popular belief makes of it a gift of Saint Louis and...

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12 juin 2007

The church St Michel in Guard-Adhémar

The borough of the Guard-Adhémar preserved its medieval structure, enclosed in ramparts in edge of a rocky outcrop dominating the plain of Pierrelatte. This plain was colonized at the Roman time by the veterans of the Roman legions (I th century). Recent...

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12 juin 2007

The valley of the nymphs

The valley of the nymphs, still wrapped mysteries, fact part of these places which one says inspired. Wonder that of a so hard and ungrateful rock spouts out continument a pure and limpid water. Not astonishing that for at least three millenia, of the...

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12 juin 2007

The church Saint-Pierre in Yzeure

Yzeure would come from Gallic Iciodorum. Two possible translations: Itio would be a name of anybody (Itis) and dorum means small village: the town of Itius. Or: Icio - itio - iccio is the Gallic adjective related to water and Dorum indicates the door,...

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12 juin 2007

Cathedral Saint Vincent de Viviers

Viviers draws its name from the fish ponds (viviers in french) which fed to it near Gallo-Roman city to Alba (Aps). It remains in the district of the castle of the traces of a Roman presence. With V th century, transfer of évêché in the Vivarium antique,...

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12 juin 2007

Notre-Dame de Montcham

With the top of the borough of Châteauneuf, in the east of Viviers, Notre-Dame de Montcham, perched on its hill, the valley of the Rhone supervises.

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12 juin 2007

Saint-Eloy of Vitray and his fountain

The area of Tronçais always had a forest vocation, well before the action of Colbert. Thus, the old parish of Vitray it was dedicated to this activity. The very small church dating from the Roman time comprises a chorus with flat bedside and two spans...

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12 juin 2007

The Notre Dame of the Marshes collegial , Villefranche-on-Saone

Villefranche on the Saone east of relatively recent creation compared to its neighbors (Lyon and Mâcon). It is “only” about the middle of XIIth century that the lord of Beaujeu Humbert III decides to create a city near a crossing between a North-South...

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12 juin 2007

The Saint Jacques church of Villefranche and the SainteThorette source

It is Archambauld VI of Bourbon and his wife Agnès which established in 1138 the charter of frankness authorizing creation, with the doors of the chapter of Montcenoux, of a frank city protected by the lord from Bourbon and where the canons renonçaient...

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12 juin 2007

Black virgins, file without pdf

“I am Nature, mother of the things, mistress of all the elements, origin and principle of the centuries, supreme divinity , queen of the Manes, first between the inhabitants of the sky, standard uniform of the gods and the goddesses. It is me whose will...

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