Saint-Senoch

Saint-Senoch is a common French of the department of Indre-et-Loire, in the area Center.

Its inhabitants is called the Saint-senochois, Saint-senochoises .

Geography

History

The discovery of a mosaic (Gallo-Roman?) at the beginning of the XIXe century, under not very precise conditions, seems nevertheless to attest an ancient occupation of the place.
About the middle of the 6th century, a poitevin of origin taifale, Sénoch, establishes there in ruins a tiny monastic community of inspiration martinienne. It raises an old “oratory there” where holy Martin would have requested, there draws up a furnace bridge and makes a “ecclesia of it” that Eufronius, bishop of Turns, comes to bless. Thanks to its successor Gregoire who manages to regulate this a little unstable monk, the establishment becomes, on one of the ways of pilgrimage towards Tours, a kind of relay where one accommodates the patients, but where one also deals with the maintenance of the ways and the bridges. Senoch dies into 576. Its foundation seems to remain some time and its tomb becomes itself, with the testimony of Gregoire de Tours, the place of a local Pèlerinage.

See the related article: Holy Senoch

Administration

Demography

Graph of evolution of the population, 1794-1999

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Senoch: priest and abbot. It was Taifale of origin and had built a monastery in the middle of old walls of the city. He dies into 576. Source: Gregoire de Tours, History of the Francs, deliver 5, ch. 7.

See too

Common of Indre-et-Loire

External bonds

Saint-Senoch on the site of INSEE

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