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JULIAN THE HOSPITALLER church
1 of oldest church
First, WHO WAS ST JULIAN THE HOSPITALLER?
The legend of Julian-the poor
as he left his house for hunting, the young Julian met a stag, who predicted to him that he would kill mother and father
He left and few times later he got married
Another day, coming from hunting, he believed one day found her wife in bed with a lover. Furious he killed the couple
Big mistake: while he was outside, her wife had welcomed his own parents and had made them sleeping, in accordance with tradition, in the conjugal bed which was the most beautiful of the house
Julian, ashamed of his act took a vow of poverty and humility and withdrew aboard a river to help people to cross the river on each side.
A stormy day, a humble pilgrim and leprous, ask him to led him despite of the dangers to do it!
Julian hesitated and finally accepted
In the middle of the crossing, the leprous changed into Jesus: He was there to forgive him, to forgive his murder
Historical background of the church
1) Middle Age
First of all, on this place, until the 6th century, an oratory (a little chapel for worship) on the ways st James of Compostella for the pilgrims and was called st Julian the confessor a bishop
Then, it was destroyed during the Normand’s invasions in the 9th and 10th centuries
Between 1165 and 1220 a new church was built by the Clunisians monks from the Longpont’s abbey (in Essonne south of Paris) to welcome pilgrims and poor travellers and that’s why he kept the name of Julian the hospitaller
2) From middle age to the 19th century
From XIIIth to the XVI th century, this church is the seat of the assemblies of the university
But it was closed to them in 1524 after that students had damaged the place church during a restless reunion
En 1655, it became a chapel of the Hôtel-Dieu.
During the revolution it is was used as salt loft and wool market
Since 1889, it has been dedicated to the Greek catholic melchite form of worship(do not not confuse with de
Inside the church
The decoration is simple, pillars have restored capitals, and the nave has 4 bays, raises en 3 levels and has ribbed cross vaults made of plaster
We can see iconostases
Outside the church
The façade is very simple as it was destroyed in the XVI th century but we know that it ha a gothic façade
Its look like a roman church that we can find in the countryside with buttress supporting the radiating chapels
Relics of the old foundations’ of the time of Normand’s invasions
we can see a well who was before in the church
Medieval stones from coming from the restorations de Notre-Dame