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Saturday 16
14:00 - 18:00
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14:00 - 18:00

Église Saint-Aignan

Place du Cloître-Saint-Aignan 45000 Orléans
  • Loiret
  • Centre-Val de Loire

Religious imagery: the passion of a family from Orléans

In the Saint-Aignan collegiate church located in the historic heart of Orléans, you will travel 150 years of life of a Orléans bookstore. You will be able to admire a selection of images of devotion,
16 and 17 September 2023Passed
Bibliothèque diocésaine d'Orléans

In the Saint-Aignan collegiate church located in the historic heart of Orléans, you will travel through 150 years of life of a bookstore in Orléans. You can admire a selection of devotional images, chosen from the 700 found, which were edited by the Blanchard family, to which is added the production of the House Pannier with its 300 models. These two publishers of pious images reflect, by their diversity and complementarity, the variety of devotional images produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A presentation of pious images of Joan of Arc published in the nineteenth and early twentieth century prepared by the Philatelic Association of Loiret is also available.
Finally, you can discover books in which these models have been used (missal, Roman parish, books of spirituality,…) or have been published by the Blanchard Bookstore.

Types d'événement
Exposition
Thèmes 2023
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I agree that the image may be freely used, provided that it is attributed to the author by name and shared under the same conditions.
Conditions de participation
Gratuit
Type de public
Tout public

About the location

Église Saint-Aignan
Place du Cloître-Saint-Aignan 45000 Orléans
  • Loiret
  • Centre-Val de Loire
The existence of the church Saint-Aignan is certified from the VIth century. An oratory then a basilica were built in homage to the bishop Aignan of whom they tell that in the year 451, its action(share) allowed, before the arrival of the Roman legions, to dissuade Attila, commander(major) of the army of Huns, to invest(surround) the city(estate) and to devastate it. The current basilica was begun with Charles VII in 1439 and finished(ended) in 1509 by Louis XII but underwent grave damage during Hundred Years' War and wars of religion. Today, only the chorus(choir), the piece cut by the apse and the transept remain(subsist) of this church in the past established(constituted) by a big(great) nave of 3 spans and by collateral which went on up to the bottom of the nave.
Tags
Édifice religieux, Monument historique, Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire
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