Narrated wandering: «gestures and rituals of our ancestors»

Name: Narrated wandering: «gestures and rituals of our ancestors»
Start: 2023-09-15T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-15T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Clédat

The ritual gestures of our ancestors (traditional, sacred, during agricultural work, herding, vigils, pig ritual...) will be presented during a visit told. This visit…

Friday 15 September 2023, 15:00Passed

Conditions

Free of charge. Free admission.

©Renaissance des Vieilles Pierres

The ritual gestures of our ancestors (traditional, sacred, on the occasion of agricultural work, herding, vigils, ritual of the pig...) will be presented during a narrated visit. This visit is proposed by Marie France Houdart, ethnologist, editor and writer.

About the location

Clédat

19300 Grandsaigne

Corrèze
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Clédat is a 12th century village that was for centuries a relay for travelers and pilgrims between the heights of the plateau of Millevaches and the country of Tulle. Attested as early as 1164 in a bull of the pope, the small Romanesque chapel Sainte-Magdeleine was associated with the «House of the poor», hospice founded by the priory-hospital Saint-Gérald of Limoges.
Closer to us, at the end of 1943, the guerrillas of the 432nd FTP company settled in Les Bordes, below the village. The group of 25 resistance fighters will be attacked by the Germans on May 4, 1944; 2 will be killed, 3 taken prisoners and deported, the others were able to escape.
The last inhabitants left the village in 1963, leaving it isolated and abandoned in the middle of the immense Larfeuil softwood forest, an authentic and mysterious nature conducive to discovery and meditation.
Until 1954, every year at the Sainte-Madeleine (July 22), a very followed pilgrimage was organized to celebrate the virtues of the «good