Ermitage Sainte-Anne d'Aillant-sur-Tholon

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The chapel-hermitage Sainte-Anne is a chapel located in Aillant-sur-Tholon, France. It is consecrated to Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary.

Location: The chapel is located in the French department of Yonne, in the commune of Aillant-sur-Tholon, 22 kilometres northwest of Auxerre and 13 kilometres from Joigny. It is located on the road of the Ormes, near the water castle.

History: A first chapel is attested as early as the ninth century at this location. Rebuilt after the Hundred Years' War, religious wars, etc., it bears witness to several architectural styles. It is an outbuilding, priory or monastic barn, of the Chartreuse de Valprofonde, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, surrounded by fortifications; hermitage in the seventeenth, eighteenth. Most of the building dates from the 17th century. It was sold as a national property at the Revolution and purchased by a resident of Aillant. When the Terror ended, he restored it to worship and brought back hermits whose last died in 1865. Then, the parish priest of Aillant-sur-Tholon, Abbé Camille Pautrat, had her restored. It became property of the municipality in 1905, it is almost left...