Sunday 14 July 2013

Church on Sunday...Notre Dame de Lorette


Today we head down the Val de Courtineau to the small troglodyte chapel that is Notre Dame de Lorette. It is an intriguing little place carved into the rocks along this charming relatively unknown little valley. I say unknown only as it doesn't seem to warrant much of a mention in any tourist guides of the local area yet it is a annual place of pilgrimage on the 'route to Santiago de Compostela'


Inside there is a small simple altar and a curious mix of religious artefacts and wall carvings including one of the 'Holy Trinity' at the foot of  well executed version of the 'Jerusalem Cross' or 'Cross of the Crusaders' which runs the whole length of the ceiling of the chapel. Read more here...

1 comment:

  1. This is one fascinating little chapel....
    but...
    "doesn't seem to warrant much of a mention in ant tourist guides of the local area"...
    possibly not, but our potager obviously is...
    we've got thousands of the little B's and they are just starting to fly!!!
    Hope you got the pix OK... there was another music evening [blues-rock] at Grand Ma's on Saturday... not quite Les Barroudeurs... but cosier!!

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