Église Saint-Sauveur-de-Chirac du Monastier

About

The monastery Saint-Sauveur-de-Chirac was a Benedictine monastery and later a Jesuit founded in the 11th century near Chirac. It gave its name to the locality where it is located, Le Monastier, and is located in the French department of Lozère, in the commune of Monastier-Pin-Moriès. He was active until the French Revolution.

Only the church of Saint-Sauveur-de-Chirac, which became a historical monument by order of 10 April 1931, remains mainly of this monastery. This church became, following the disappearance of the monastery, the parish church. It was in this monastery that Guillaume de Grimoard made his novitiate, he was then abbot of Saint-Victor-de-Marseille, then elected pope under the name Urbain V.