Collegial Saint-Heart
Localization
Under the current place Saint-Heart with
Douai
Longitude=03°04' 31" Is latitude= 50°22' 08" North
Origins towards 950
Arnoul I er, recovers with
Soissons the holy body of Amé and installs it in Douai with a community of canons
The Romance church and its crypts 11th century about 1190
Collegial gothic script 16th century
Last centuries
Demolitions 1723
Dispersion of works
Painting of saint Alexis
They are properties from now on communes of
Auberchicourt and presented in the church. It is three tables about Flemish school 17th century (fabric and oil-base paint) coming from the collegial Saint-Heart on the return the marriage and the death of Alexis saint certainly of
Alexis the Man of God.
Sculpture of Maurand saint
A sculpture of the 17th century (height 116cm) of Holy Maurant or holy Maurand is in the Saint-Jacob church of
Douai out of painted and gilded stone. It is represented sat the feet on a base, crowned with in its right hand a sceptre and its left hand a model of the collegial Saint-Heart.
Excavations July 2004 November 2005