Guided tour of the Calvary chapel and the Penitents Noirs cemetery

Name: Visite guidée de la chapelle du Calvaire et du cimetière des Pénitents Noirs
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Cimetière des Pénitents Noirs de Guéret

Come to attend a visit on the symbolic funeral of the cemetery and the chapel of Calvary (chapel of the Black Penitents).

Samedi 16 septembre 2023, 14h00Passé

©Association Société du Cimetière des Pénitents Noirs de Guéret

Come and attend a visit on the funeral symbolism of the cemetery and the chapel of Calvary (Chapel of the Black Penitents).

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

Thèmes 2023

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

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