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17 and 18 September 2022Passed

September 2022

Saturday 17

10:00 - 12:00

14:00 - 19:00

Sunday 18

10:00 - 12:00

14:00 - 19:00

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Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens

Le Bourg 37310 Chédigny

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

Exhibition of priestly vestments and religious objects

Name: Exhibition of priestly vestments and religious objects
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens

Forgotten today, models will trace the religious life within a family: baptism, communion, marriage… To discover also, a beautiful hearse (landau shape) dating from 1919.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

@mairieChedigny

It used to transport the deceased to the cemetery, at the pace of a horse. Today, there is very little model still preserved in good condition.
Inside, you will discover, besides the statues of the seventeenth, stained glass windows of the nineteenth.

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Thème 2022

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About the location

Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens

Le Bourg 37310 Chédigny

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

This church is called St Peter, one of the twelve apostles of Christ and the first pope. Saint-Pierre-ès-liens commemorates the liberation of Saint Peter by an angel, who came to break his chains in the prison of Carceri (Rome), during the first Christian persecutions in Rome, this feast is celebrated on August 1 (day of the patronal feast of the church of Chédigny. The current choir of the Church of St.Peter can be dated from the first third of the twelfth century and on a keystone one already distinguishes the word: St.Peter and his keys, symbolizing the keys of the Church and the keys of Paradise. The later transept of the fourteenth century and vaulted only in 1888 as indicated by an inscription at the western entrance of the chapel of the Virgin and the nave probably rebuilt in the sixteenth century at the same time as the main facade.