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Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille

Lille

Dimensions
Translucent marble facade, completed in 1999; building without a tall spire
Period
Legend of an apparition set around 640; charter of the collegiate church of Saint-Pierre in 1066; cult firmly established in the 13th century; present cathedral built between 1854 and 1999
What stands there
Statue hidden in a sewer during the French Revolution to escape destruction, then restored to worship in the 19th century

Tradition relates that Ermengarde, mother of the legendary founder Lydéric, had an apparition of the Virgin around 640 that gave rise to the Marian cult of Lille. A stone statue, given according to tradition in the 11th century, became an object of pilgrimage under the name of Notre-Dame de la Treille, protected by a wrought-iron grille. During the Revolution a chaplain hid it in a sewer to save it from destruction; recovered intact, it was reinstalled and then crowned in 1874 in the cathedral built for the purpose, completed only in 1999.

Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille – Histoire de la statue ↗

Getting there : Cathedral open to the public every day, free admission

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

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Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille
Christophe.Finot · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

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