Free visit to discover the restoration and stained glass of the church

Name: Free visit to discover the restoration and stained glass of the church
Start: 2023-09-15T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Eglise Sainte-Raffine de Gaujac

Come and discover the last restoration works of the Sainte-Raffine church in Gaujac: the exterior elevations of the nave and the chevet, the stained glass windows, the interior elevations of the nave

15 - 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free of charge. Free admission.

©Catherine Caillou

Come and discover the latest restoration work of the Sainte-Raffine de Gaujac church: the external elevations of the nave and the chevet, the stained glass windows, the interior elevations of the nave and the chevet, the sanitation in modern embankments north side, the restoration of the Romanesque bay of the chevet, south side...

About the location

Eglise Sainte-Raffine de Gaujac

75 chemin du Peyrot de l'Homme, 47360 Frégimont

Lot-et-Garonne
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The principal patron saint of the church is Our Lady of September, that is, the Nativity of the Virgin. The secondary patron saint is Saint Raffine (or Rafine). According to Canon Durengues, Saint Raffine had her feast day on July 17\. No text can tell who Saint Rafine was. It may be that Saint Rafine is a deformation of Saint Rufine who suffered martyrdom under Diocletian in Seville, with her sister, Saint Justus.
Near the church of Sainte-Raffine de Gaujac existed the Sainte-Raffine spring which was the object of a very old pilgrimage. According to Georges Tholin, the Sainte-Raffine church is the oldest church in Lot-et-Garonne, from the 11th century, and perhaps from the 10th century, because in this church «everything is rudimentary in style, everything accuses the childhood of Romanesque art». His interest would come from his preaching pulpit which would have been built at the same time as the church. For Pierre Dubourg-Noves, the rudimentary style would come from what it is simpl