Guided tour "From Varallo to the Calvary of Megève: the origins of this sacred mountain under the Sardinian Restoration"
The Calvary of Megève was built from 1840, on the model of the sacred mount of Varallo, founded at the end of the fifteenth century by Bernardin Caimi at the entrance of the Val Sesia, in the Italian
Dimanche 18 septembre 2022, 09h30Passé
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Built between 1840 and 1878, the Calvary of Megève is above all the work of a man, Father Ambroise Martin (1791-1863), parish priest of Megève from 1820 until his death. Following a pilgrimage to Varallo, in northern Italy, where he discovered a Sacro-Monte, Curé Ambroise Martin decided to build a Golgotha mègevan to erase the stigma of the French Revolution and revive the fervent devotion of the Mègevans.