Notre-Dame de Myans

Myans

A shrine built on the memory of a catastrophe and on faith in a miracle that spared the living.

The shrine of Notre-Dame de Myans owes its origin to one of the greatest natural disasters in the history of Savoy: on the night of 24 November 1248, a gigantic landslide from Mont Granier buried several villages and claimed around 1,500 victims, the flow halting, according to tradition, just in front of a small chapel dedicated to the Virgin. The survivors saw in this a miraculous sign, and Marian devotion grew on the site until the building, from 1452, of the present shrine, entrusted to Franciscan friars from Belley. The shrine houses a 12th-century Black Madonna statue in ebony.

Getting there : Basilica and shrine open to the public; active Marian pilgrimage site of the diocese of Chambéry

Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.

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