SAINTE-DEVOTE CHURCH
Saint Devote is the patron and patron of the Principality. The Roman emperor Diocletian reigned from 284 to 305. It was he who created the reign system to four (tétrarchie) to better manage the vast empire, leading the last large and bloody wave of persecution against followers of the new religion of Christianity.
Corsica saint Devote was one of his victims towards the end of his reign, around 304. Recognized as martyrdom later, a legend perpetuates his memory: fearing that his body is soiled, his entourage manages to recover his remains and put her in a boat… who fails on a beach in Monaco. She was later buried at the foot of the Rock, the base of a future chapel (th century).
The building was entrusted to the monks of the abbey of Saint-Pons and was bought by Lord Honoré Grimaldi I to become a property of the Principality (1536). Several successive churches were erected on the site. The current church dates back to 1870 (Prince Charles III reign). Every year, we commemorate the miraculous return of the holy man by seizing a boat on the of the church.
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