Guided tour of the cemetery of Guéret

Name: Visite commentée du cimetière de Guéret
Start: 2023-09-16T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Cimetière des Pénitents Noirs de Guéret

The guided tour aims to make the public discover the riches of this cemetery which dominates a beautiful landscape facing the Monts de Guéret. This new look will allow everyone to...

Samedi 16 septembre 2023, 10h30, 16h00Passé

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accueil@ville-gueret.fr 05 55 51 47 00

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The guided tour aims to make the public discover the riches of this cemetery which dominates a magnificent landscape oriented on the Monts de Guéret. This new look will allow everyone to understand the evolution of this site through history, to discover one of the last «romantic» cemetery and to understand the history of the illustrious buried in this place. It will also detail the various symbols used as well as the history of the use of porcelain in the cemeteries of Limousin.

À propos du lieu

Cimetière des Pénitents Noirs de Guéret

Rue de la Madeleine, 23000 Guéret

Creuse
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The chapel of Calvary dates from the 17th century and the cemetery from the 18th century.
The Confrérie Sainte-Croix des Pénitents Noirs de Guéret was confirmed on September 6, 1673 by the bishop of Limoges, François de Lafayette. The Black Penitents had to to visit the prisoners and the poor to meet their needs, to help the poor orphaned girls to marry and the children to learn some trade or art to earn a living, to visit the sick confreres, to bury the poor dead, who will have left no property to help them at their funeral and have God pray for them after their death.”
More than a century later, on May 12, 1783, Louis Charles du Plessis d'Argentré Bishop of Limoges authorized the Brotherhood to build its cemetery around their Chapel of the Crucifix on land belonging to them and another boundary donated by Sieur Antoine-François-Sylvain Coudert lord of Sardent.
It was no longer possible, following the royal ordinance of 1776 which prohibited burials in churches and chapels, for the co