Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth de Toulouse

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Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth Chapel is a chapel located at 6 rue Philippe-Féral, in the city centre of Toulouse. She gave her name to the nearby street, the Grand Street Nazareth. She is now assigned to Catholic worship and is dependent on the parish of Notre-Dame de la Dalbade, which is part of the parish complex of Saint-Étienne. A first chapel is already known in the 13th century, but the current building is built between the mid-15th century and the beginning of the next century. The architecture of the ensemble is pure Gothic, without reshuffle of the Renaissance, but it received a later decoration. It was built by parliamentarians and used by the judiciary until the French Revolution.

The foundation of a chapel dedicated to Mary dates back to the discovery around 1260 of a miraculous statue in the ditches near the Montgaillard gate. This "image of Nostre-Dame with a representation of the Sun", as the magistrate and Toulouse historian Guillaume Catel says: it was perhaps a statue or an ancient bas-relief of the goddess Cybele sitting, having in hand a patère...