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The Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques, France, was a popular stop for pilgrims traveling the Way of St. James to Santiago de Compostela, in what is now Spain. The main draw for medieval pilgrims at Conques were the remains of Sainte-Foy, a young woman martyred during the fourth century. The relics of Sainte-Foy arrived in Conques through ...
The original monastery building at Conques was an eighth-century oratory built by monks fleeing the Saracens in Spain. [4] The original chapel was destroyed in the eleventh century in order to facilitate the creation of a much larger church [5] as the arrival of the relics of Sainte-Foy caused the pilgrimage route to shift from Agen to Conques. [6]
Saint Faith or Saint Faith of Conques (Latin: Sancta Fides; French: Sainte Foy; Spanish: Santa Fe) is a saint who is said to have been a girl or young woman of Agen in Aquitaine. Her legend recounts how she was arrested during persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire and refused to make pagan sacrifices.
La Chaise-Dieu Abbey Conques Abbey church Corbie Abbey. Caen (Calvados), Diocese of Bayeux: Abbaye aux Dames (Abbaye de la Trinité de Caen), nuns; Abbaye aux Hommes (Abbaye Saint-Étienne de Caen), monks; Cagnotte Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Cagnotte), monks, Diocese of Aire, later Diocese of Dax (Cagnotte, Landes) Calvary Abbey, La Fère: see ...
The lantern of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques (11th–12th century) The squinches joining the supporting arches of the lantern are decorated with sculpture of the Apostles. The base is Romanesque, while the lantern itself is later Gothic.
In 1094, the centre of the adoration of Saint Faith was moved to Conques, where a grander sanctuary and pilgrimage site was being built as the Abbey Church of Saint Foy. [2] The church was rebuilt in the 12th century as the centre of a monastery. In 1615, it became a Jesuit college (see also Jesuit Church, Molsheim), which it remained until 1767.
Bernard of Angers introduced his text (the first two books of the Liber miraculorum sancte Fidis) in a letter to Fulbert of Chartres.. The Liber consists of four books in medieval Latin, the first two of which were written by Bernard of Angers, who was a student of Fulbert of Chartres and master of the cathedral school of Angers, during and following his three pilgrimages to the shrine of ...
Between 877 and 883 the monks carried off the body of the youthful martyr Faith or Foy from the monastery of Sainte Foy to Conques, where it became the object of a great pilgrimage. Abbot Odolric built the abbey church between 1030 and 1060; on the stonework over the doorway is carved the most artistic representation in France of the Last Judgment.