Saint-Junien , Feels Junian in Occitan, is a city of the mid-west of the France, chief town of canton of the department of the High-Vienna (87), on the Vienna.

Geography

The city is in the influence of the crater of the meteorite of Rochechouart.

Station

Village flowered (2 flowers)

Access

History

As of the year 500, an ascetic of Hungarian origin , Holy Amand, chooses a lodging on Right Bank of the Vienna, not far from its Confluent with the Glane, in an area called “Comodoliac”. The bishop of Limoges Rorice Ier offers a humble cell to him. At this point in time Junien originating in North, wire of a Count of Cambrai, baptized by Saint Remi of Rheims left its family, at the 15 years age and became a disciple of Saint Amand. It knocked on the door of the Ermite, but this one did not answer him. The night, Junien was saved by the Neige which fell. He lived as a hermit and after the death of its Master, lived with the site of current collegial. During its life, it is known as that it achieves four large Miracle S. He removed the area from a dragon which devoured animals and human, by driving out it using a cross. It delivered Poitevins of the interior fire which burned them thanks to water of a source. It threw the demon in a Gouffre, by making the sign of cross. And Junien drove out the demon of the nephew of the bishop of Limoges, Rorice which in 540 become itself bishop (Rorice II) chaired his funerals. The bishop makes raise an oratory with his memory, then a church served by regular canons of Saint-Augustin. Saint Junien is called upon for the cure of the blind and the Paralytique S.

In 593, Gregoire of Tours is struck by the importance of the Pèlerinage the tomb of the saint. Such an multitude quickly causes the birth of a Agglomération around the abbey built in the honor of the saint. But the monastery is destroyed by the Norman ones in 866. After an attempt at restoration around the year 900, the abbey lives sparely until its secularization by Sylvestre II in the year 1000. The Canon S not residing more in the abbey, they contribute to the rebirth of the city by the construction of their dwellings. A provost, Holy Israel, undertakes to rebuild the church, and its successors continue his work until his dedication in 1100. At the end of the 13th century, following disorders and of armed incursions, the city is surrounded by high bored walls of four principal doors. At the 15th century, in addition to the church which is the only monument still nowadays existing, the collegial unit includes/understands cloister, press, barns, psallette of the Chapter (music school), together episcopal of the Lord Bishop (home, vault, Prison, room of justice) and the Cimetière.

Located at the center of an area of breeding and thus supported by a raw material abundance such as Skin X of kids and lambs, Saint-Junien profits moreover, as regards Tannage, of exceptional qualities of water of Vienna. As of the 11th century, Masters Artisan S cut Gant S in skins which they themselves had tanned. At the 15th century, the glove factory reaches a great fame. Towards 1872, the appearance of the first sewing machines and “Iron hand” upset the manufactoring processes. The apogee of the Tawing and the Ganterie is in 1927: 40 factories and more than one thousand of workers and workmen work with the reputation of the glove of Saint-Junien. Currently, the prestige of certain house, suppliers of large dressmakers such as Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, Hermes, Lanvin, Cacharel and others, explains the place which the leather gloves of the city occupy accounting for 45% of the French production (either more than 480.000 pairs per annum).

In addition to the glove factory, Saint-Junien was also affirmed like a place privileged for the production of Papier. At the 17th century, five amounted Moulin S and the appearance of the paper machines towards 1835 supported the establishment of many paper mills. The raw materials such as the straw and then the abundant Bois in the Limousin allowed a rapid development of this industry and its derivatives: impression, packing, the boarding.

“Ostensions” celebrate every seven years the memory of Junien Saint and Amand Saint. To this occasion, their Reliques is exposed and a ceremony proceeds: sumptuous decorations left, the main street is covered with foliages in remembering the Forêt of Comodoliac. Groups of Statue S appear the principal events of the life of the saints founders of the city. Sunday, after large' the mass of the morning, 1500 people dressed up representing the history of the saints for 2000 years have ravelled solemnly through the city.

Regional language and culture

Saint Junien is, as the remainder of High Vienna, in the cultural zone occitane. The language of oc, present in the toponymy of the city and the life of many its inhabitants, is also found in the cultural life.

After the First World War is formed a folk group singers and dancers called the village wedding of Junien Saint. April 29th, 1941, at the conclusion of a patronage for which the Ortiz abbot is responsible, the folk group of the Velhadors (watchers in occitan) is born. Since 1943, it belongs to the Félibrige while becoming the school félibréenne Jean-Teillet. In 1985, Saint Junien will accommodate the festival of Holy Estelle, festival of the félibigre, where the star with 7 branches represent the 7 great areas of the Occitanie (of which the the Limousin). Currently, the activities of Velhadors turn around the traditional dances, of the music, the songs and the theater, to make live the traditions limousines and the language of oc. Each year, Velhadors assemble a new spectacle. In spring 2006, it was about the Miracle of Burning which gained according to the press a sharp success.

Sain Junien also works with the recognition of regional specificity. Thus the new watery center received a name in oc: the Aiga Bluia (blue water). The country of Junien Saint defined a plan for the installation of a bilingual indication. Several communes are already equipped with it, Saint Junien owe the being soon. There existed already, since the Eighties, of the arrow courses of walk in occitan.

Administration

Demography

Economy

  • precise details on the Glove factory

  • Glove factory Ewe-lamb
  • Glove factory Georges Morand

equipment and services

Teaching

August 1st

Health

August 1st

Cultural activities and sporting

August 1st

Historic buildings

  • Abbey of Saint-Amand (12th century)
  • Vault Our-Lady-of-Bridge: this small building of blazing style is located on the edges of Vienna beside the Notre-Dame bridge. It owes its origin with discovered of a statue of the Virgin Mary in these places. Louis XI, of passage in the area gave subsidies in order to built a monumental vault in which one placed the obejet of the popular but so royal devotion.
  • Vault of the cemetery (13th century)
  • Collegial Saint-Junien (11th at the 14th century): Its origin goes back to VIIe century, when the bishop of Limoges, Rorice II, made build an oratory on the tomb of the Junien hermit. A college of canons was installed in order to ensure the worship of Junien. The current building is the being spread out fruit of successive constructions of XIe century for certain parts of the nave until XIVe century for the bedside. The tower of transept crossing which crumbled in the years 1920 was to rebuild with the identical one. Principal curiosities to be discovered in this collegial are the tomb of Junien saint out of limestone (XIIe century), the fresco of the nave representing the twenty-four old men of the Apocalypse (XIIe century) and the vault Saint-Martial (XIIIe century)
  • Pont Holy-Elisabeth (12th century)
  • Pont Notre-Dame (13th century)

Personalities related to the commune

Twinnings

Blasonnement

Blazon: Of azure, with a gold lion crowned, armed and lampassé with mouths.
(Malta-Brown, illustrated France , volume V, 1884)

See too

  • Common of High-Vienna

External bonds

  • Site of the town hall

  • Presentation of the second city of the department of High Vienna
  • Saint-Junien on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Saint-Junien on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Junien on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Junien on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Junien on Mapquest

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