Notre-Dame basilica of the Spine

The Basilique Our-Lady-in-the Épine is located in the small village of the Spine in the Marne, near to Châlons-in-Champagne in direction of Verdun.

Started about 1405-1406, construction lasted until 1527. Raised with the row of basilica since 1914, the church Our-Lady-with-the Épine draws its name from the devotion carried to a statue representing the Virgin carrying the Child-Jesus, found by shepherds with the Moyen-âge in a bush of spines ignited. The basilica with dimensions of cathedral is of style Gothic, the frontage comprises three gates and it is crowned of two arrows. That of right-hand side measures 55 meters, that of left was arrasée in 1798 to allow the installation of a Télégraphe Chappe, it was rebuilt in 1868. Inside one can admire a Jubé end of 15th whose right arcade shelters the statue of the virgin who is at the origin of re-elected this basilica.

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History of the basilica of the Spine

Notre-Dame of the Spine 1406 - 2006. Acts of the international symposium of the September 15th and 16th 2006 , ( Studies Marnaises , T. CXXI and CXXII), to appear November 2007 and February 2008. Luc-Benoist, Notre-Dame of the Spine , Paris: Henri Laurens, 1933 (small monographs of the large buildings of France). Jean-Baptiste Renault, the Notre-Dame basilica of the Spine , Langres: Dominique Guéniot, 2006 (routes of the inheritance).

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