Église Saint-Helier de Beuzeville

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The church Saint-Hélier is the Catholic parish church of Beuzeville, in the Eure. The present parish, Estuaire-Pays d'Auge, is located in the northwest sector of the diocese of Évreux and covers the former cantons of Beuzeville and Cormeilles; Beuzeville is the largest town in the population. This church is dedicated to Saint Hélier (the 6th century monk from Tongres, Belgium, who became hermit in Jersey and gave his name to the main city of the island).

The church, before renovation, represented an example of the drifts of Saint Sulpice art. It contained a real bric-à-brac of plaster statues of a perfect taste. In the early 1960s, the dean of Beuzeville, Canon Leprieur undertook to restore an authentic face to the church.

He was a lover of the arts and especially of sacred art. He started a major renovation project that lasted almost ten years. He called on the volunteer workers to drop the plasters from the walls.

This team, after the working day, came to play the bouchard for an hour or two to make the stone reappear. Once this first construction site was completed, the canon Leprieur undertook that of the...