SAINTE-CLAIRE CHAPEL - LES SEPT ROSES

The Chapelle Ste Claire, one of the "Seven Roses" of St Quirin (the white rose), is located on the departmental road 96f, on the way out of Vasperviller towards St Quirin. A charming little mountain chapel, it was also originally a Celtic sanctuary, Christianised in the 6th century. In 1440, it was a chapel with a hermitage, then in the Middle Ages, a monastery of the Poor Clares, and in the 18th century it became a hermitage again. Restored in 1808, it now hosts the pilgrimage of St Clare, who is invoked for eye diseases.