Auvergne majesty
Saint-Nectaire, a name that epitomizes all the Auvergne since evokes both a powerful family of that province, famous cheese, a spa and a Romanesque church. At the heart of the Massif du Sancy Saint Nectaire is a must.
A marquee in the church account the origins of Saint-Nectaire and his legend. Nectary is a disciple of St. Peter who baptized him and sent him to evangelize Gaul. Today is the saint and his tomb was built the shrine, at the same time and on the same plane as the largest Romanesque churches in Auvergne.
The church of Saint-Nectaire gray trachyte, whose bell tower of the transept has been completely rebuilt, was described in great views of Mount Cornadore. It offers a wonderful sunrise apse scholars schedules where her pink gold rubbed slightly through the lichen radiates peace on the background of the pines. Chapels of the apse apse soar - soberly decorated with a frieze of arches and delicate - to the tip of the steeple. Destroyed in 1794 it was rebuilt in imitation of the bell tower of Saint-Saturnin, and the towers of the facade.
Inside dimensions despite significantly lower than those of other major churches of Auvergne, the impression of scale and majesty is nevertheless the same. Simple, lovely in its severity, the church united before a three-aisled narthex remained intact throughout the ages. From here, one of the best preserved in the Auvergne, we are seized by the union of stone and light leading to the shrine where the look ahead, marvel at the church clean, inexhaustible imagery capitals that depict the life of Christ's Passion but also the end of time.
Verve and common sense, humor, intense life, and rapture tumult characterize the hundred three capitals that depict an entire iconographic program of which they seem to be the work of three different workshops. Among them, six major capitals adorning each of four sides of columns of the choir are particularly noteworthy. Roughly cut in the coarse-grained trachyte of Dores, they illustrate the arrest and scourging of Christ Carrying the Cross, Jesus' appearance in St. Thomas, the transfiguration, the loaves, life and the miracles of Saint-Nectaire, apocalyptic scenes, the triumph of the Cross, the Last Judgement and the Descent of Christ into hell which is found the tomb empty.
Auvergne According to tradition, the aisles forums are overcome "commercial" which help to maintain those vaults of the nave. A dome cap on the wrong crossing. Surrounded by an ambulatory with radiating chapels, the choir is not as high as the nave.
Despite the numerous thefts during the Revolution, the famous treasure exhibited in the left transept retains its interest thanks to some extraordinary pieces. Among these, the bust of Saint Baudome, the companion of Saint-Nectaire (quite astounding reliquary bust of the twelfth century, oak, covered with wrought copper and gold). It is more then forget this beautiful face huge copper eyes with which dilated pupils give a very strong presence.
Another treasure: a black Madonna in Majesty, contemporary building, known as Our Lady of Mount Cornadore, carrying the infant on her lap and to splendid pieces of silver limousine, two dishes with Binding decorated with enamel and cabochons champlevé.
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