Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Pitié

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The chapel Notre-Dame de Pitié is a chapel located in Marignane on an oppidum of the third century B.C. named Oppidum de Notre-Dame de Pitié. Traditionally, the small oratory of the beginning of the twelfth century, Notre-Dame du Défens, between the chapel and the dwelling of its guardian, would have been raised by Raymond des Baux.

In fact, in the first crusade with his father Guillaume des Baux and his godfather the Count of Toulouse, Raymond escapes, unlike the other two, the massacres which they were subjected to by defending their position in Tripoli (1105). This oratory was later extended by an 18th-century chapel. This site will probably change its name after 1638, when from then on many chapels and churches passed under the name of Notre-Dame de Pitié after King Louis XIII, on 15 August, consecrated France to the Virgin Mary in a ritual practiced in front of a painting by Notre-Dame de Pitié.