Chapelle Saint-Clair de Lyon

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The Saint-Clair chapel is an extinct Catholic religious building located on the Balme Saint-Clair, on the banks of the Rhône, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, France. Certified in the 13th century, it was a dependency of the Saint-Pierre abbey. A seclusion was added before disappearing in the early modern era. Used as an almshouse from the 18th century onwards, it was destroyed during the French Revolution. A chapter of the same name was built twenty years later in the commune of Caluire-et-Cuire, thus changing parish. In the 20th century, it was replaced by Saint-Clair church in the common same. His name spread across the whole of the Lyonnais balme, and later become the name of the Saint-Clair district as well as several of its sites and buildings.

Early life: Saint Clair was a Catholic abbot who lived in the 6th century. Celebrated in Lyon on January 2, a public holiday in all the city's courtyards, he is the patron saint of glassmakers. In 1619, the later joined forces with paints, protected by Saint Luc, to replace the first chapter on the left of Saint-Bonaventure church, dedicated to Mary, with their bosses. They were replaced two hundreds years later by St. Francis...