CHAPELLE SAINT-GERTRUDE
Small chapel built in 1530 on the ruins of an earlier pagan chapel or place of worship.
Built in 1530, this chapel was probably built on the ruins of an earlier chapel or even a pagan edifice. A cloth merchant from Nivelle in northern France had vowed to finance a chapel to thank Saint Gertrude. Comprising two colonnaded porticoes and an altar for the dead, it contains a statue of the saint, recognizable by her attributes: mice running up her coat. During the Ancien Régime, pilgrims would stop off on their way to pray or ask for the saint's favors.
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