Enjoy a guided tour of this chapel whose history dates back to the 12th century

Name: Disfrute de una visita guiada en esta capilla cuya historia se remonta al siglo XII
Start: 2022-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T16:45:00+02:00
Location: Église Notre-Dame de Lorette

Come and discover the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and discover the efforts made to safeguard it.

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

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Come and discover the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and discover the efforts made to safeguard it.

A monument in peril, the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette suffers from having been built on a source that weakens its southern foundations. An association was created in 2022 to animate this place, make it known and collect funds for its protection. The work is estimated at two million euro.
The commented visit of the history of the sanctuary will take you in the second half of the thirteenth century, starting with the construction of a primitive cave, called «queen’s cave», by Eléonore de Provence, following the appearance to two young shepherds of a lady dressed in white beside a bush or sinking a spring. The rest of the tour will take you through the construction of the upper church in 1864 with magnificent stained glass windows by Joseph Villiet in 1866 and Jacque Leuzy in 1950. An important place of pilgrimages until around 1980, this sanctuary is one of the rare sites built on two levels

About the location

Église Notre-Dame de Lorette

Lieu-dit Lorette, 33190 Saint-Michel-de-Lapujade

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

This church is a source to which the Virgin Mary appeared, the starting point of the history of this religious monument. A chapel was built around the spring that still flows under the altar. To extend the capacity of the pilgrims, a church was built in the 19th century over the chapel, creating an atypical monument on two levels.