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PATRIMOINE - Chapelle Fontfeyne
Historic site and monument, Church
in Saint-Frion
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This 12th-century Romanesque chapel features a bell tower with 2 arcades and modillions. Restored in the 15th and 19th centuries, it is the only vestige of the hospital house inhabited in 1258 by the nuns of Fontevrault Abbey. The hospital and chapel were part of the Blessac Priory. It was built near a so-called miraculous spring. The chapel was a refuge for pilgrims on their way to Clermont-Ferrand and Le Puy-en-Velay, or to Santiago de Compostela.
Today, the chapel is open once a year for...This 12th-century Romanesque chapel features a bell tower with 2 arcades and modillions. Restored in the 15th and 19th centuries, it is the only vestige of the hospital house inhabited in 1258 by the nuns of Fontevrault Abbey. The hospital and chapel were part of the Blessac Priory. It was built near a so-called miraculous spring. The chapel was a refuge for pilgrims on their way to Clermont-Ferrand and Le Puy-en-Velay, or to Santiago de Compostela.
Today, the chapel is open once a year for the pilgrimage on September 8, the day of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
The procession takes a path through the woods to the Polish Cross. This is an opportunity to see the 16th-century pietà.
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- All year 2025
