11 juin 2007
Church Saint Hymetière
Hymetériens, hymetériennes, here a study of your church which envoûtée me. To take with the direction first and the old direction, which is “to pass under the vault”…
Jewel
of the Romanesque art, the church of Hymetière Saint, close to
Arinthod, typical of the 1st Mediterranean Romanesque art, is composed
of a porch, three naves, a transept in the medium of which a cupola
rises supporting the bell-tower of octagonal form.
The
southernmost influence is found in the apse with its typical bands
lombardes. Inside, the central nave is flanked sides and limited by
round and square pillars, whereas the apse, in bottom of furnace, is
closed by five arcades. the bedside is in hemicycle.
Its
dimensions 12,80 meters length are in the central nave, of 18,65 meters
in the width of the transept, of 15,30 meters in the width of the three
naves, and of 9,50 meters in the height of the cupola of the transept.
In
the medium of the XI ème century, the Romance church is born, with its
nave supported by round pillars. This church quickly knew problems of
stability because of its construction on a marly ground. As of the XI
ème century, it was necessary to consolidate the triumphal arch and the
transept crossing. With the XIII ème and XIV ème centuries, a
resumption of the vault and all the northern wall was carried out with
buttresses. With the XVII ème century, important work took place:
consolidation, removal of the northern apse, addition of the western
and southern porches.
Hymetière
saint, or Imeter, monk of Condat (hold, it is a wink with the vault
visited previously, Saint Romain…), which lived with the VI ème
century, its abbey left to withdraw itself in the valley of Valouse
then deserted where it founded a hermitage. It had probablementavec him
some companions. Little by little, the dwellings were formed around its
cell and gave rise to the village which bears its name.
Saint
Hymetière died in his hermitage and its virtues made it honour like a
saint. He was buried in a vault which was placed under its invocation.
It is possible that the priory was founded of alive sound, or little
time after its death. It is made by it to mention for the first time at
the IX ème century in a diploma of Charles the Bald person.
At
that time, the monks followed the rule of Saint Augustin. The house
prieurale was in the south of the church and was destroyed at the same
time as the village which surrounded it by the troops of Louis XI to
the XV ème century.
After the opening of its tomb, on October 22, 1653, its relics were posed in a hunting which one finds inside the church today.
As
regards the energy study of the place, it is enough to look on the
porch of entry. It is proposed to us, on each side, a splendid swirl
dextrogyre. Not the laevorotatory one, which pourait to indicate that
energies are male, i.e. cosmic.
The
8 is with the honor, since we find it in the shape of the bell-tower,
but also in the flower of the keystone, and in the cross posed in the
east of the church, in its center. We are not far from the Rosicrucians…
The foot bath at the entry shows well that the monks were the first users of the place. Who says foot bath says water. I think that the Jordan passes just in lower part.
The remainders of Hymetière Saint release a soft energy, very alleviating. The place encourages with the meditation. At the entry, a stone of lowering makes its office, so that we can, after the vacuum, to fill us with this soft energy.
And the stoup located under the porch makes me think of the cut graal. Isn't it?
To finish, I would say that the energy released by the place is resting, spread out, with the image of the surrounding countryside… And a guard is with the top of the entry, inside the church.
A last small thing: it is not for only the bell-tower has an octagonal form. The templiers were present in the area, as implies it the village close to Montagna-le-Templier. A great commandery was to be in Saint Julien.
the vault of Saint Alban
Between
saint Hymetière and Simandre, in direction of Montagna-le-templier,
prélasse myself the small vault Saint Alban. Beside it Suran runs,
which we will find going along the menhir of Simandre.
construction does not have anything extraordinary, but the atmosphere is interesting…
A
source, behind the vault, runs in direction of Suran while passing
directly under the building. This source has a guard, a little dark
with my taste, but quite present. Inside, it seemed me to see a
splendid statue, but as usual, the doors were closed…
Alban, Alba the white one…
In
Latin, albus, alba, album were an adjective of color or rather of
absence of colors since it is about the white, the paddle being well
this species of clareté dubious which precedes to raise it day. The
troubadours of the Middle Ages had made some one moment privileged to
sing the dawn serenade with the loved being, while waiting for that
comes, with the evening, the hour of the serenade. The white of the
paddle did not merge for the Romans with the white shining, dazzling
like that of the snow, for which they employed the word candidus. The
French word “ingenuous” does not evoke any more bright whiteness of an
object but a moral or intellectual quality qualifying a person. But
does one know what is, étymologiquement, a candidate? It was for the
Romans, that which aspired to a high position and which, with this
intention, was covered with a white toga.