Chapelle Saint-Lézin

Name: Chapelle Saint-Lézin
Start: 2023-09-15T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Lieu-dit Saint-Lézin - Congrier

Panels explain the renovation work and the history of Saint-Lézin, patron saint of slate.

15 - 17 September 2023Passed

Anita Rouleau

Panels explain the renovation work and the history of Saint-Lézin, patron saint of slate.

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About the location

Lieu-dit Saint-Lézin - Congrier

53800 Congrier

Mayenne
Pays de la Loire

When slate quarries were open-pit quarries and not mines, Saint-Lézin, patron saint of the Perrayeurs, celebrated February 13\. This small chapel on the territory of the commune of Congrier testifies to this devotion to the oldest protector of slate workers: Saint-Lézin, monk, then bishop of Angers, which, at the end of the fifth century, had discovered the fissility of slate and taught the workers how to exploit it. From this date, slate, which was only used as building material for the walls, was used in thin plates on the roof of the buildings. Saint-Lézin had his house covered with them.