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Christianity sacred sites in France
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Saint-Médard Church, Saugues
Haute-Loire, France
At the heart of Saugues stands the former collegiate church of Saint-Médard, a convergence point on the Via Podiensis where pilgrims from Le Puy meet those arriving from...
Saint-Pierre Abbey in Moissac
Tarn-et-Garonne, France
Saint-Pierre de Moissac is one of the supreme achievements of Romanesque art. Its twelfth-century south portal renders Christ in glory from the Book of Revelation, and its...
Saint-Roch Chapel
Lozère, France
Standing alone at around 1,300 metres in the bleak Margeride, the Chapelle Saint-Roch marks the highest reaches and the Haute-Loire–Lozère threshold of the Le Puy route....
Saint-Sever Abbey
Landes, France
One of the great Romanesque sanctuaries of Gascony, Saint-Sever Abbey was founded around the turn of the millennium and rebuilt on the model of Cluny....
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Salette
La Salette-Fallavaux, Isère, France
At 1,800 meters in the French Alps, where two shepherd children encountered a weeping woman of light in 1846, a sanctuary now receives 300,000 pilgrims annually....
Sanctuary of Our Lady of the End of the Bridge – Refuge of the Mother and Child of Pau
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
In Pau, this neo-Gothic church gathers a Béarnais Marian devotion documented since the sixteenth century — Our Lady at the end of the bridge, invoked for safe crossing and...
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....
St. Guilhem le Desert
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault, France
In 804, Guillaume—Count of Toulouse, Duke of Aquitaine, grandson of Charles Martel, knight of Charlemagne—retired to a desert valley to found a monastery....
The Abbey Church of the Holy Savior in Figeac
Lot, France
At the heart of medieval Figeac stands Saint-Sauveur, the surviving abbey church of a Benedictine, later Cluniac, monastery founded in 838 whose relics drew pilgrims for...
The Black Madonna of Le Puy
Inside Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Puy
Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
In Le Puy's great cathedral, on the altar where pilgrims have knelt for fifteen centuries, sits a Black Madonna only two centuries old....
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...
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Laghet
La Trinité, Alpes-Maritimes, France
High in the hills between Nice and Monaco, the Sanctuary of Notre-Dame de Laghet has drawn pilgrims since 1652, when spontaneous healings began occurring at a humble...
The Sanctuary of Rocamadour
Rocamadour, Lot, France
Clinging to a sheer cliff face above the Alzou River canyon, Rocamadour has drawn pilgrims since the Middle Ages to venerate the ancient Black Madonna....
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