Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-l'Orme

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The Notre-Dame-de-l'Orme chapel or chapel of the Orme, is a chapel located in the hamlet of Farget on the commune of Saint-Martin-du-Mont in the Ain in France. One of its notable features is that the building was built around a tree in which a Pietà is nestled. The chapel of l'Orme shares this singularity with the chapel of the Oak of Saint-Martin-de-Connée. Since 1998, the chapel has belonged to 50% of the parish association "Le Renouveau" and 50% of the diocese of Belley-Ars.

Prior to the 1998 restoration, a date of the tree (an elm) was made, which resulted in its date of 1350 and its death in the autumn-winter 1652-1653. It is also known that he experienced serious trauma around 1559. This study determined that the chapel could not be earlier than 1653 because before that date the tree was alive: the chapel was built around the tree only after the tree had died. The chapel has always been attached to the nearby Château de La Roche, which in 1600 belonged to the archbishop of Taraise, Jean-François Berliet. The estate passed in 1605 to his nephew Jean d'Ivoley who transmitted it...