Chapelle Saint-Martin du Beuvray

About

The Saint Martin Chapel is a Catholic chapel located at the top of Mount Beuvray in the Morvan Massif in France, built between the 11th and 13th centuries and in ruins in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is located on the site of a Gallo-Roman temple in the educational city of Bibracte, erected at the beginning of our Common Era. In 376, the evangelizer Martin de Tours reportedly destroyed pagan idols.

The site retains a religious and ritual presence from antiquity to today and hosts important fairs for centuries. A new chapel was built in 1873 at the will of the discoverer of the ancient site, Jacques-Gabriel Bulliot. Near the present monument are a monumental cross, also erected on the initiative of archaeologists in honour of Saint Martin in 1851 and which succeeds an older wooden cross, as well as the remains of Saint Martin's fountain, a place of older rites.