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Basilique Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Cordon

Valenciennes

Dimensions

Neo-Gothic building of the 19th century, built between 1852 and 1864

Period

Legend dated from 31 August to 7 September 1008; present basilica built between 1852 and 1864, raised to the rank of minor basilica in 1922

What stands there

Commemorative festival (the Tour du Saint-Cordon) celebrated every year for more than a century

According to local tradition, while plague was ravaging Valenciennes, the Virgin appeared on 31 August 1008 to the hermit Bertholin to announce the end of the scourge; on the following 7 September, a luminous cord is said to have miraculously encircled the town's ramparts, halting the epidemic there. In memory of this episode, unattested by contemporary historical sources, an annual procession (the Tour du Saint-Cordon) has ever since perpetuated a Marian devotion regarded as the founding cult of the present basilica.

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Getting there : Basilica open to the public; annual procession in September

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