Basilique Notre-Dame de Gray

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Notre-Dame de Gray Basilica is the parish church in the city of Gray, Franche-Comté. Located in the diocese of Besançon, she is part of the parish of Notre-Dame de Gray. It was built in the 15th and 16th centuries, in a Gothic-Renaissance hybrid style, on the site of a first Notre-Dame church destroyed in 1477 during the War of Succession of Burgundy. Since 1641 it has housed the heart of Saint Pierre Fourier and since 1802 the miraculous statue of Notre-Dame de Gray. The possession of these two relics earned him the elevation as a minor basilica on 16 July 1948 by Pope Pius XII. It has been classified as historic monuments since 18 April 1988.

The first mention of a church near Gray Castle dates back to 1227. The mother parish is then in Gray-la-Ville. Gray's archives, however, mention the presence of canons attached to the castle chapel from the beginning of the 12th century, but which do not intervene in the parish. In 1266 Count Hugues de Chalon (1220-1266) built a chapel dedicated to St.Elisabeth, recently canonized, in the...