Saint-Quentin-on-Sauxillanges

Saint-Quentin-on-Sauxillanges is a common French, located in the department of the Puy-de-Dôme and the area Auvergne.

Geography

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Communes bordering

Origin of the name: Quentinus is a marthyr of the III E century Under the revolution the commune bore some time the name of Rock. A tradition wanted that a Gallic chief, Celsus, had there a residence strengthened. Saint Quentin appears into 927 when Acfred, duke of Aquitaine, give his church to the priory of Sauxillanges. Gift confirmed by a pontifical bubble of 1906. In 1789 the priory was always owner of St Quentin. In the beginning there was vraisembablement to celebrate the worship only the vault of the châteu. Then a church at the time Romance was built, but it was not parochial: it was an appendix of Notre Dame de Sauxillanges. The bishop visited it in 1773. In March 1790 the " hamlet of St Quentin" became a commune. Nowadays St Quentin is a pitorresque small village. Its church has only one nave of two spans followed by an elevated heart finished by a flat bedside. the unit is covered with a broken cradle which two beams reinforce. The Western door protected by a modern hood preserves its old casements with their strap hinges of origin.

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See too

  • Common of the Puy-de-Dôme

External bonds

  • Saint-Quentin-on-Sauxillanges on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Saint-Quentin-on-Sauxillanges on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Quentin-on-Sauxillanges on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Quentin-on-Sauxillanges on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Quentin-on-Sauxillanges on Mapquest

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