Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-l'Espérance, La Rochelle

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The Notre-Dame-de-l'Espérance chapel is located in the centre of La Rochelle between Rue des Augustins and Rue Bazoges. The tridentin rite, also called the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, is practiced there. It belongs to the Priory of Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire de Saint-Germain-de-Prinçay, who is also dependent on the Priestly Fraternity of Saint-Pie-X. The chapel is included in the additional inventory of historical monuments on December 31, 1985, including the altarpiece.

History: A gift was given to Abbé Thibeau, then parish priest of Saint-Louis Cathedral, to found a convent-son of that of the Sainte-Famille de Bordeaux. Thus, in 1855, the Sisters of this congregation founded their house after having transformed what was originally the Guillemet baths on Rue des Augustins.

Seven years later, the chapel was blessed by Jean-François Landriot, bishop of La Rochelle and Saintes. The assignment of the convent to the Sisters of the Holy Family lasted a little more than a century because, in 1970, it was dissolved: the building was sold and divided into apartments. His chapel became, a few years later, owned by a company of HLM. At the same time, Catholics...