Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Purgatoire des Mouilles

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The Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Purgatoire des Mouilles or Notre-Dame-du-Salut, commonly known as Chapel des Mouilles, is a Catholic chapel located in the Mouilles, a hamlet in the commune of Bellevaux in Haute-Savoie, in the diocese of Annecy.

History: Anastasie Favre, a resident of the hamlet of Les Mouilles, built this chapel in 1875. She dedicated it to Notre-Dame du Salvation because in 1860 a fire broke out in a farm in Les Mouilles, threatening the other houses; Anastasie Favre had the statue of the Virgin venerated in the past at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Nifflon (alpace of Bellevaux). Desirous of saving her, she leaves her home, helped by her friend Véronique Favrat. It is said that when the Virgin appeared, the flames turned away. Miracle or wind jump? Still, the houses in the hamlet were saved. In recognition, Anastasie Favre had the chapel built, with the financial help of the parish people, on a land offered by a family in the hamlet. The statue of the Virgin is now there. A procession took place by the arrival of the statue Notre-Dame de Boulogne, accompanied by a mass in 1945. In the years 1963...