Paray-le-Monial

Paray-le-Monial is a common French, located in the department of Saône-et-Loire and the area Burgundy.

Its inhabitants is called the Parodiens .

Access

in car: RN 79 Mâcon connection/Mills in train: line FOR THE THIRD TIME Turn-Orleans/Lyon Leaves God or line FOR THE THIRD TIME Clermont Ferrand/Dijon-City

It should be noted that SNCF railway station of Paray Monial is a railway crossroads. Certain rail links have as a Paray terminus Monial

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Paray-le-Monial is classified town of art and history.

the basilica of the Sacred Heart, (architecture clunisienne , end of the 11th century for the Narthex and 12th - 14th for the church)

the town hall (old house Jayet), (16th century)

the Vault of the Visitation

the Tower Saint Nicolas's Day (16th century)

the Museum eucharistic of Hiéron, classified museum of France. This museum is the oldest museum of sacred art of France builds as tel. It was built with the XIXe century on the initiative of the Jesuit Victor Drevon and the baron Alexis de Sarachaga. Closed during the years 1990, the museum was entirely renovated by the municipality in 2005. It introduces today a rich person collection of works of art around the topic of the eucharistie: liturgical tables, sculptures, objects… A National treasure came to enrich its collections: via Vitae, " Way of vie" (1894-1904) of the Parisian goldsmith Joseph Chaumet.

the market hall, monument dating from the beginning of the 20th century, equipped with a great originality in its construction out of metal and glass, was alas, completely disfigured by work of " réhabilitation" (transformation into shopping mall).

the place Jean Jaurès and its legendary plane trees sheltering of sumptuous plays of game of bowls, places henceforth concreted and transformed into carpark deprived of any heart.

Priorale clunisienne

In 973 the count Lambert of Trawl-net founded a Cloître which as of 999 was placed by the bishop of Auxerre under the authority of the Abbaye of Cluny, which made some, until the end of the Old Mode, a priory clunisien.

No trace of a first church (10th century) is had. Starting from the beginning of the 11th century, a building was built that the recent excavations, led by Gilles Rollier, made it possible to discover; this construction probably ended in the Western solid mass (porch and two bell-towers) at the beginning of the 12th century. A new construction, much more ambitious, did not certainly begin before the medium from the 12th century, and started then with the construction of a large apse with déambulatoire, which included initially the preceding apse. Work progressed with an extreme slowness, and were not completed before the beginning of the 14th century (Gothic stage of the principal bell-tower, replaced with 19th by a pastiche néo-novel). The final breathlessness of the building site made that work stopped whereas less than half of the nave envisaged had been built, which left a building which appears curiously proportioned.

Since the end of the 19th century, Paray-le-Monial and its church are one of the places of the most attended Pèlerinage France. The object of these pilgrimages is the worship of the Sacré-coeur, due to the visions of Marguerite-Marie Alacoque in second half of the 17th century and more still to the action of the Jesuit Claude Colombière.

The church of today is a basilica whose principal building counts three spans with a transept of only one nave, two small turns in the west and a large tower of transept. The church has an overall length of 63,5 m (including the hall and the Eastern Vault belonging to the radiating chapels) and a width of 22,35 m (without the transept). With its 40,50 m compared to the almost square Nave (22 m length until crossing) the transept gives the impression to be disproportionate. The great nave of the principal building has a height of 22 m, including the tower transept and total height of the church is of 56 Mr.

The chorus takes as a starting point the model of Cluny with a déambulatoire and radiating chapels.

Pilgrimage

At the 17th century, Christ appeared with a nun, Sainte Marguerite-Marie, born in a village surrounding and nun in the Monastère of the Visitation. During three large Appearance S, it presented its heart Here to him “this heart which so much loved the men and who receives in exchange only ingratitudes of those which are devoted to him”. Very quickly, Marguerite-Marie accepted the support and the spiritual councils of a Jésuite Saint Claude Colombière. De Paray-le-Monial, was born a gigantic devotion, called the worship of the Sacré-coeur. Pilgrimages were born in Paray-Le-Monial and of the sanctuaries were built with the four corners of the world, most famous (in France) being the Basilique of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre.

Today, this pilgrimage, which had seemed to fall into a relative lapse of memory, is a great success. The charismatic Renouveau made there its first session in 1975 which was continued by many meetings animated by the Communauté of Emmanuel. The Pape Jean-Paul II came there in pilgrimage in October 1985. Since 1986, the bishop of Autun entrusted the animation of this place to the Communauté of Emmanuel. The number of pilgrims does not cease growing and of the gatherings follow one another during the summer but also all the year.

Personalities related to the commune

holy Claude of Colombière (1641-1682)
holy Marguerite-Marie Alacoque (1647-1690)
Jacqueline Maillan (1923-1992)
Jacky Desvignes (1950-2051)

Twinnings

Technology

Second downtown in France after Blanquefort with being fonized. Since June 2007 the city installs points Wifi in the municipal buildings as well as the buildings partners equipped with a connection Internet. What makes it possible to be connected free starting from a laptop, of a smartphone or of a portable game console.

www.paraywifi.com: Official site of the operation.

See too

Common of Saône-et-Loire

External bonds

Official site of Paray-le-Monial
Official site of free the Wifi operation in Paray Monial in partnership with Fon
Official site of the museum of sacred art of Paray-le-Monial, classified museum of France
Official site of the sanctuaries and the pilgrimage
Paray-le-Monial on the site of the national geographical Institute
Paray-le-Monial on the site of INSEE
Paray-le-Monial on the site of Quid
Localization of Paray-le-Monial on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Paray-le-Monial on Mapquest

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