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Virgin Mary sacred places in France
Explore 12 sacred places with reviewed veneration relationships to Virgin Mary in France.
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Basilica of Notre-Dame du Port
Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Built from the dark volcanic stone of Auvergne, Notre-Dame du Port stands among the finest Romanesque churches in France—one of ten major examples within thirty kilometers....
Black Madonna of Daurade
Inside Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Daurade
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
Notre-Dame la Noire—Our Lady the Black One—has protected mothers in childbirth since at least the tenth century....
Black Madonna of Guingamp
Inside Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Guingamp
Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, France
In the basilica at Guingamp sits a Black Madonna whose origins are wrapped in Crusader legend and whose original title—Notre-Dame du Halgouët, Our Lady from under the...
Black Madonna of Moulins
Inside Moulins Cathedral
Moulins, Allier, France
In Moulins Cathedral, a Black Madonna holds the Christ child who blesses the world with one hand while clutching the closed book of gospels to his chest....
Black Madonna of Pontoise
Inside Eglise Notre-Dame de Pontoise
Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France
The Miraculous Virgin of Pontoise stands over two meters tall, fine and slender, carved in the thirteenth century....
Black Madonna of Vichy
Inside Notre-Dame des Malades
Vichy, Allier, France
In November 1793, Revolutionary authorities in Vichy condemned a medieval Black Virgin—tried her like a traitor, sentenced her, beheaded her, and set her burning....
Notre-Dame de Bon-Espoir
Inside Church of Notre-Dame, Dijon
Dijon, Côte-d’Or, France
In a Gothic church praised by Viollet-le-Duc as a masterpiece of reason, one of France's oldest Marian statues holds court....
Notre-Dame de Confession (Our Lady of Confession)
Inside Abbey of Saint-Victor
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
In the crypt of Marseille's oldest sanctuary, a Black Madonna waits in the half-darkness....
Notre-Dame de Sous-Terre (Our Lady Under the Earth)
Inside Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France
Beneath the soaring Gothic nave of Chartres Cathedral lies its oldest and most mysterious space: the crypt where Notre-Dame de Sous-Terre—Our Lady Under the Earth—has been...
Our Lady of Rocamadour
Inside The Sanctuary of Rocamadour
Rocamadour, Lot, France
Carved into a limestone cliff above the Alzou Valley, Rocamadour has drawn pilgrims for nearly nine centuries to venerate a small, dark statue known as the Black Madonna....
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 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...
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