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Basilica Saint Mathurin

Basilica Saint Mathurin
Basilica Saint Mathurin
Basilica Saint Mathurin
Basilica Saint Mathurin

Description

This famous place of pilgrimage celebrates the memory of Saint Mathurin, who was born here in the third century.
His family was pagan, but when he converted to Christianity he instructed his parents and soon gained a great reputation of great saintliness. At that time it was rumoured that the Roman Emperor’s daughter Theodora was possessed of a devil that declared it would only leave her if Saint Mathurin intervened.
The Saint was therefore ordered to go to Rome, where he healed the Emperor’s daughter but then died. His body was brought back and laid in a chapel at Larchant, where it was venerated by many visitors. Saint Mathurin was invoked for healing of the mad, and this pilgrimage became one of the most famous in France in the Middle Ages, especially as it was also on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Six kings of France made the pilgrimage to Larchant: Charles IV, Louis XI, Charles VIII, François I twice, Henri II and Henri III. Today’s pilgrimage takes place every year at Whitsuntide.
The church as it is today was built from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. It had barely been completed when an extraordinary series of catastrophes befell it. It burned twice, struck by lightning in 1490 and again in 1568 during the Wars of Religion. Pillaging and hurricanes added to the list of its miseries, the ultimate disaster being the collapse of the tower in 1675. The Last Judgement door, with its vivid imagery dating from the thirteenth century, gives access to the ruined part of the nave. Access today is by the south door of the transept. Only the choir, the apse and the chapel of the Virgin have kept their roof vaults. The two levels of windows in the apse give it a harmony accentuated by the slim columns set out from the walls. The luminosity of this huge vessel as it must have been when the 46 windows lit it can easily be imagined.

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48.284052.596352
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Point of Interest updated on 29/10/2024

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Free access.

Updated by

Office de Tourisme du Pays de Nemours - 28/10/2024
www.tourisme-paysdenemours.fr
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Open period

From 01/01 to 31/12, daily.

Contact

Phone : 01 64 28 16 17

Email : village@larchant.fr

Website :
www.larchant.com
www.larchant.fr/

IGN cards

2417OTR - FORÊT DE FONTAINEBLEAU RESISTANTE FORET DES TROIS PIGNONS
Editor : IGN
Collection : TOP 25 RÉSISTANTE
Scale : 1:25 000
17.20€
2417OT - FORÊT DE FONTAINEBLEAU FORÊT DES TROIS PIGNONS
Editor : IGN
Collection : TOP 25 ET SÉRIE BLEUE
Scale : 1:25 000
13.90€
118 PARIS CHARTRES PNR DE LA HAUTE VALLÉE DE CHEVREUSE
Editor : IGN
Collection : TOP 100
Scale : 1:100 000
8.40€
119 PARIS SENS PNR DU GÂTINAIS FRANÇAIS
Editor : IGN
Collection : TOP 100
Scale : 1:100 000
8.40€
D75-95 ÎLE-DE-FRANCE OUEST
Editor : IGN
Collection : CARTES DÉPARTEMENTALES IGN
Scale : 1:150 000
5.90€
D77 SEINE-ET-MARNE
Editor : IGN
Collection : CARTES DÉPARTEMENTALES IGN
Scale : 1:150 000
5.90€
D41-45 LOIR-ET-CHER LOIRET
Editor : IGN
Collection : CARTES DÉPARTEMENTALES IGN
Scale : 1:150 000
5.90€
NR05 GRAND EST RECTO/VERSO MASSIF DES VOSGES ALSACE LORRAINE
Editor : IGN
Collection : CARTES RÉGIONALES IGN
Scale : 1:250 000
6.80€
NR04 - GRAND EST RECTO/VERSO ARDENNE CHAMPAGNE
Editor : IGN
Collection : CARTES RÉGIONALES IGN
Scale : 1:250 000
6.80€
NR03 ÍLE DE FRANCE
Editor : IGN
Collection : CARTES RÉGIONALES IGN
Scale : 1:250 000
6.80€
NR08 CENTRE-VAL DE LOIRE
Editor : IGN
Collection : CARTES RÉGIONALES IGN
Scale : 1:250 000
6.80€
801 FRANCE NORD OUEST
Editor : IGN
Collection : CARTES NATIONALES IGN
Scale : 1:320 000
6.10€
EUROPE
Editor : IGN
Collection : DÉCOUVERTE DES PAYS DU MONDE IGN
Scale : 1:2 500 000
7.00€
82019 - FORÊT DE FONTAINEBLEAU
Editor : IGN
Collection : DÉCOUVERTE DE LIEUX D’EXCEPTION
Scale : 1:16 000
9.95€

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