Monistrol-in Allier

Monistrol-with Allier is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Loire and the area Auvergne.

Geography

Two throats with the basaltic rocks converge towards the boxed site of Monistrol d' Allier.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Culture and inheritance

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle .
One comes from Saint-Privat-with Allier, the next commune is Saugues with the collegial Saint M3edard's Day and the old hospital Saint-Jacques.

Monk

Monistrol has for church, and a presbytery, an old Romance priory which depended on the abbey of Chair-God.
Behind the bedside, a Gothic cross, 15th or 16th century, relates, to its barrel a bumblebee.
The side characters seem to represent holy Jacques himself or one of these humble moving towards Compostelle.

Place known as of Rochegude - altitude 967 m.
It is an old fortified town at the border of the Velay and Gévaudan. Had in turn by the most powerful families of the surroundings: Mercœur, Montlaur, Rochebaron.
The vault is dedicated to Jacques saint, and the pilgrims did not fail to achieve their devotions there.

the hamlet of Escluzels.
The vault of Madeleine.
A text of 1312 evokes an oratory of the area of Monistrol, dedicated to holy Madeleine. This is the current Grotte which, according to some, would have been used as dwelling Celtique, and would be the counterpart of that of Holy-Baume.
At the 17th century, a stone frontage surmounted by a pediment came to close it and transform it into Chapelle; she knew, at the end of this century, large a célébrité.
In the tomb X cut in the rock, on the right and on the left of the vault, one found bones of woman and child, as well as coins of Monnaie of the beginning of the 17th century. These do Sarcophage S go back to this period or were employed again?
Placed on the way of Pilgrimage, it was a halt very indicated during a hard climbing.

See too

  • Common of the Haute-Loire


External bonds

  • Monistrol To combine in Haute-Loire. Footpaths: GR65 St Jacques de Compostelle, Path of the Throats To combine it, GR412.
  • Monistrol-in Allier on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Monistrol-in Allier on the site of INSEE
  • Monistrol-in Allier on the site of Quid
  • Localization Monistrol-in Allier on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane Monistrol-in Allier on Mapquest

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