Chapelle de Saint Étienne de Cavall

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The church Saint-Etienne de Cavall is a chapel located in La Salvetat-sur-Agout, in the French department of Hérault in the Occitanie region.

History: The church of Saint-Etienne de Cavall was mentioned for the first time in 940 in a donation text made by Aymeric, archbishop of Narbonne, in Otger, abbot of Saint-Pons-de-Thomières. In the 11th century, a Lombard apse was built. The church housed and still houses the "Miraculous" statue of a black Virgin carved in the 11th century. According to legend, it was an ox who would have found it in a gulf at the confluence between the Vebra and the Agout. During the Wars of Religion, the original building was destroyed. A new three-nave building is being built. A lowering of the structures made the remaining Lombards of the 11th century disappear, leaving only the lesenes. The third span was destroyed in the 19th century. Inscribed to historical monuments by decree of 29 November 1976, it is today the chapel of the cemetery and a relay on the way to Santiago de Compostela.