Basilica Saint-Joseph-of-Ends of Annecy

Construction

The basilica St Joseph of the ends of Annecy was blessed the July 4th 1937, the day before the Second world war by Monseigneur Florent-Michel of Villerabel, bishop of the diocese of Annecy, the first stone of this church whose patron saint would be Saint Joseph.

The initiator of the project was the priest Amédée Folliet, who thanks to his tenacity concluded the project. The church was finished in 1941 by the architect Benedictine Dom Paul Bello, in the squat style of the area, personalized by this large innovator of the contemporary, elder sacred art of almost 30 years of Novarina . The interior decoration of the building, set up with the row of minor basilica by Paul VI in 1964, proscribes almost all the curved lines with the profit of vaults with broken blind arcades. The stained glasses are of Charlin. The construction of the church Saint-Joseph-of-Ends accompanies the growth by the town of Annecy towards north, according to the walk of a ventilated and still conventional urbanization.

One of the characteristic of the Basilique resides in one of its bell S. Indeed, this bell is one of the 57 bells which were molten in Annecy during the spring and of the summer of the year 1950. Each one of them is an exact reproduction of the bell of the freedom which resounds to proclaim in 1776 American independence in Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, and which the American people regarded since as being a symbol of these memorable days.

One made use of these bells since May 15th until July 4th, 1950 as emblem for the countryside of the American treasury bills. These bells will be permanently exposed in each state of the the United States of America like to the district from Columbia, Hawaii and in Alaska, in Puerto Rico and in Virgin Islands. One of these bells was given to Japan. The inhabitants of Annecy made gift of a bell to the inhabitants of the town of Independence (Missouri), hearth of the president of the USA, Mr. Harry S. Truman.

The government of the United States of America made arrangements necessary to give this bell to the town of Annecy in recognition of the technical skill and the art of its workmen and to point out the fact that freedom is a common heritage of France and the United States

Organ

Organ Stiehr and Mockers (1872) /Hartmann (1963)

3 manual keyboards and pedals
40 plays
Motor traction of the keyboards

The current organ of the basilica was built in 1872 by the factors Stiehr and Mockers. The characteristic of this last is that it was built for the church St Philippe of Algiers, in which proceeded besides the funeral of Camille Saint-Saëns. During the decolonization, threatened of destruction, it was dismounted in 1963 and was gone up in the basilica St Joseph of the Ends by the Hartmann factor. It has 40 plays of which some are classified historic buildings. Marie-Claire Alain, Michel Chapuis, Vera Celtic, Louis Robillard and Ruscon took part in its inauguration. The titular organist is Me today Cecile Mantileri

External bonds

http://plaisirdelamusique.site.voila.fr

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