Articles populaires – Sacred places

29 juillet 2007

Meeting the sanctuary

The sepulchre of the monks The first meeting, and not of least, is done with the ruins of a small Romane church of centered plan, whose the absidioles are still visible. Its construction goes back to the years 1000. The remainders as well as the heap...

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29 juillet 2007

The arrival to the Sacra di San Michele

This “wonder” is seen by far, and there is this furtive impression which one will touch it soon. Furtive certainly, because it is necessary, as with the Michaelmas Mount (the danger of the sea), to make a good walk before finding the entry. As usual in...

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29 juillet 2007

Foundations and the first constructions of the abbey

Between 983 and 987, shortly after the expulsion of Buckwheats, two oratories were rebuilt, according to a clunisian chronicler. It is at the end of Xth century that the third vault was built, vaster than the two others, by the hermit Jean Vincent. It...

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29 juillet 2007

Sacra di San Michele, history

The Pirchiriano mount, on the slope of which is Sacra it di san Michele, dominates with 962m, and is drawn up in the valley of Suse, not far from Turin. The valley was formed in the time of the ice ages and was planed by the power of the ices, as the...

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27 juin 2008

procedure…

Hello, You are more than 25.000 to have visited me since the creation of the french blog, and I would like to thank you. (and more than 100.000 pages seen) Sincerely yours… (If you want the french version : http://lieuxsacres.canalblog.com/ ) NEW… A forum...

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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

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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12 juin 2007

Notre-Dame de Valfleury

There was an old vault dedicated to the virgin where ran an healer source. Notre Dame de Valfleury was found, the Christmas day before, a little before year 800. A shepherd saw a broom in flowers. While having drawn aside the branches, it found the statue....

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12 juin 2007

Notre-Dame of the crusades

I present the lady of the crusades to you. A black virgin was venerated in Thuret since the seventh crusade, was preach in Le Puy in front of Saint louis and the lords of Thuret. This one dates from the XVIIth century and has being reproduced on the model...

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12 juin 2007

Notre-Dame the Brown one of Tournus

The neat invoice of this Virgin out of wooden of cedar, certain details of the seat as well as the costume invite to date it from XIIth century. One will notice in particular the face of adult of the child and the importance of the hands of the Virgin....

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11 juin 2007

Mosaics of the Saint-Philibert church

In France, very few mosaics were preserved in place going back to this period. The topics of the calendar and the zodiac, which represents the time of God through the cosmic cycle, that of nature and that of work of the men, illustrated of them others...

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12 juin 2007

Notre-Dame de Rocles

Inside the church Saint-Saturnin de Rocles, the absidiole northern preserve the statue on wood of the Virgin. Sat like the virgins with the child of the Romance time, it however belongs to the style and at the time Gothic. It was found by “chance” between...

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12 juin 2007

Notre-Dame of Vernusses

Notre-Dame de Vernusse is a virgin in majesty in drowning of XIIème century. It is 72 cm high. Until the revolution, it was always venerated in the young elm or it was discovered. However, Vernusse comes from “vern”, which wants to say alder… It is for...

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11 juin 2007

Neighbourhoods of Vezelay, Saint-Père

In the middle of Burgundy, in full Celtic and druidic country, Vézelay seems one of the most prestigious sites of knowledge, by teaching the great laws of the life of cosmos Near the site of Vézelay, in Druyes, we find a cave deep, currently blocked,...

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11 juin 2007

The cross of Vézelay

Many visitors can pass beside a little marvel, the cross of Vézelay, located at the feet of the hill. It is enough, in front of the frontage of the basilica, to take on the left in direction of a vault of the XII ème century. The slope is perilous… But...

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11 juin 2007

Besse in Chandesse

The origin of Besse in Chandesse is still to elucidate. Concerning the name of the village, one knows that there is nearly thousand years, fires of Besse depended on another place, more important: chandess, today hamlet of Chandèze. At the time medieval,...

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11 juin 2007

Brionnet

On the road leading of Besse to Ronzières, the village of Brionnet. Nothing important good, if it is not a vault posed on a dyke, that one sees by far. It dominates all the area, and makes me much think of Saint Michel d' Aiguilhe. There too, one needed...

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11 juin 2007

Valfleury, the black virgin

There was an old vault dedicated to the virgin where ran an healer source. Notre Dame de Valfleury was found, the Christmas day before, a little before year 800. A shepherd saw a broom in flowers. While having drawn aside the branches, it found the statue....

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11 juin 2007

The church Saint Martin de Valaurie

Valaurie, small village of Drome, has a last rich person. Not far was discovered a prehistoric stone workshop of size, then excavations released a necropolis Gallo-Roman with the place says Crespias. Sarcophagi, currencies of the inscriptions funerary...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Philibert abbey of Tournus

Tournus is located at the edge of the Saone on a terrace easy to defend and with the shelter of the risings. Located on great voices of communication, Tournus was already a Roman castrum. In 175, the Romans established a camp strengthened on the site....

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11 juin 2007

The church St Philibert de Tournus

It is one of the largest Romance monuments of France. It was built mainly in XIème century. It is made up of a whole of sanctuaries distributed on three levels: the crypt, the large church on one level, nave and chorus, the entered before-nave forming,...

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11 juin 2007

The crypt of Saint-Philibert of Tournus

dedicated to St Valérien, martyrized in Tournus in IIème century, with half-buried because of the slope of the ground, it serves as sitted with the bedside of the church. One will notice the characteristics of voûtement, realized in a kind of concrete...

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