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Christianity sacred sites in Aveyron, France
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Bonneval Abbey
Aveyron, France
Founded in 1147 as a Cistercian house in a secluded Aveyron valley, Bonneval was ruined by plague, war, and revolution, then raised again in 1875 by Trappistine nuns who...
Church of Perse
Aveyron, France
On the approach to Espalion, the Romanesque church of Perse was a priory of the great Abbey of Conques, dedicated like its mother house to Sainte-Foy....
Church of Saint-Pierre of Bessuéjouls
Aveyron, France
Between Espalion and Estaing, the modest church of Saint-Pierre de Bessuéjouls keeps an extraordinary secret: a tiny Romanesque chapel raised in its bell tower and...
Notre-Dame-des-Pauvres Church, Aubrac
Aveyron, France
On the high, treeless Aubrac plateau stands Notre-Dame-des-Pauvres, the late-twelfth-century church of the medieval Dômerie d'Aubrac, a monastery-hospital founded to...
Saint-Geniez-d’Olt Church
Aveyron, France
In the Lot valley below the Aubrac, Saint-Geniez-d'Olt grew rich on cloth and built itself a substantial domed parish church in the southern Baroque-classical manner....
St. Cosmas' Church
Aveyron, France
In one of the Most Beautiful Villages of France, the church of Saint-Côme-et-Saint-Damien lifts a strange twisted 'flamed' spire above the rooftops....
The Church of Saint Fleuret in Estaing
Aveyron, France
In the village of Estaing, reached across a UNESCO-listed Gothic bridge, the flamboyant church of Saint-Fleuret holds the relics of the village's patron, a bishop said to...
The Sainte-Foy abbey church in Conques
Conques-en-Rouergue, Aveyron, France
A twelve-year-old girl was beheaded in 303 for refusing to worship Roman gods. Her relics came to Conques through holy theft, and her golden statue-reliquary—the oldest in...
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