Chapelle d'Aigrefeuille

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The chapel Saint-André d'Aigrefeuille, or simply chapel of Aigrefeuille, is a chapel located in Bâgé-la-Ville in France.

Presentation: The chapel is located in the French department of Ain, in the commune of Bâgé-la-Ville. Built in the 12th century, by the order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, the chapel was a place of pilgrimage dedicated to the healing of malignant children. Renovated by Friends of the Site, Bâgé Culture et Loisirs in 2008, the building can only be visited upon request.

History: In 1180, Ulrich de Bâgé donated land at Bâgé-la-Ville in Saint-Vincent-de-Mâcon. At the end of the 12th century, the knights of the Order of Saint-Lazare-de-Jerusalem took possession of the estate of Aigrefeuille-en-Bresse, it is one of the oldest establishments of the Order. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Passin, a Protestant family, bought the building but had it demolished in part. The bell tower was destroyed and the bell bearing the inscription "Sancte Lazare, ora pro nobis" disappeared. Until the 1960s, the altar was surmounted by a statue of Saint Lazarus who had been the object of a pilgrimage existing since the seventeenth century. The statue would have...