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SAINT LIBERAL CHAPEL

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Rue de Corrèze, 19100Brive-La-Gaillarde, France
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2024
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2024

Chapel of the XIVth for the Dominicans, used to dispense the religious worship of the secular high schools of Brive, place of exhibitions

Saint Libéral is a native saint: the son of a baker named Delcour, Libéral was born in Brive around 870. In his youth, he is said to have performed his first miracle by distributing to the poor, during a famine, a full kneading trough of dough ready to be put in the oven. The inhabitants decided to build a chapel for him. Built in the 14th century for the Dominicans, this chapel was for a long time used to provide religious worship for the lay high schools of Brive and since 1976 it has hosted temporary exhibitions. At the beginning of November, during the Book Fair, great writers come here to lead debates and read texts that the solemnity of the place magnifies with emotion under the diffuse clarity of the stained glass windows of the master glassmaker Gesta, from Toulouse. Don't look for the bells, they were lowered during the Revolution when the chapel was bought as a national asset by the Lalande family, who set up a tallow foundry and a candle factory

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seccotine
Visited in november 2022
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superbe et insolite
Vouée aux expositions artistiques, son accès est gratuit.
En octobre, la chapelle proposait une remarquable exposition du plasticien Maxime Thoreau dont l'œuvre insolite poétise l’univers mécanique et électromécanique . L'artiste né en 1990, diplômé des Beaux-arts de Bourges est en résidence permanente à Meymac en Corrèze
johnoflyon
Visited in february 2017
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More discreet to find than the cathedral of Brive, the Chapel is nonetheless a very beautiful building with exposed stone. The building is very clean on its façade worth visiting the interior. Not great extravagance here but a sobriety which calls to meditation and quite nice paintings.

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