Lestelle-Bétharram

See also: Bétharram

Lestelle-Bétharram is a common French located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

Communes bordering

History

Country house created in 1335, Lestelle-Bétharram is a very old place of pilgrimage. The tradition reports indeed that the Vierge saved an young girl of the drowning there by tightening a branch under the bridge to him (bétharram means beautiful branch as inhabitant of Béarn) and more than eighty miracles would have been listed there with the XVII° century. The sanctuary of the XVI° and XVII° is a jewel of the Baroque art in Béarn.

In 1837 Saint Michel Garicoïts founded the college Notre-Dame de Bétharram, head office of the Congregation of the Fathers of the Sacred Heart that a double vocation of mission and teaching brought to essaimer in the whole world (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ivory Coast, China…). One can see in the vault his coffin out of glass and an end of his inch.

The museum of the Congregation of the Fathers of Lestelle-Bétharram made up of accumulations of objects throughout the centuries, has many collections, prehistory at modern times, in relation to the regional history and constitutes with him only a place of visit impossible to circumvent in Béarn.

It is with Lestelle-Bétharram then manifestly known for its miracles, that Bernadette Soubirous very often came. She brought back from there the chain which she held during the appearance of the Vierge to Lourdes.

Administration

Demography

Culture and Inheritance

Martyrdom and way of cross (XVIIe century destroyed with the Revolution, stations raised in 1805, low-reliefs of the cycle of Passion carved by Alexandre Renoir, of the vaults of eclectic style of 1841 to 1845).

Vault Notre-Dame (1645/61), bell, pulpit, monumental painting, organ case, platform, furnace bridge, retables, statues, tables, frameworks, lectern, miniature, objects of worship (of 16th with 18th)

Vault Saint-Michel-Garicoïts (1922/28)

Pont de Bétharram - arch Bridge, 1 span - (1687)

Church Saint-Jean-Baptist (18th)

Internal bond

Common of the Yrénées-Atlantiques

External bonds

  • Fathers of Bétharram
  • Photographs of Lestelle Bétharram and the surroundings
  • country houses in Yrénées-Atlantiques

Lestelle has also a team of Rugby has XIII: The CASE XIII Before Lestelloise Guard

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