Saint-Sorlin

Saint-Sorlin is a common French, located in the department of the the Rhone and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

Saint Sorlin is at the South-east of Lyon, to approximately 5 min of Mornant.

History

Leant with the foot of the first buttresses of the Mounts of the Lyonese, Saint-Sorlin was, in 1895, a country of farmers and velvet makers. One lived there painfully. To improve their fate, his inhabitants could find to represent them devoted men. It is thus of Jean-Claude CHAVASSIEUX, 1840-1918, eleventh mayor of Saint-Sorlin (deformed name of Saint Saturnin, bishop of Toulouse, martyrized in this city in year 250, to which the church of the village is dedicated). It resulted from Charpes" of a very Christian family. The tradition wants that it is at André, grandfather of Jean-Claude, that took refuge Abbot MAZENOD, when it was driven out of his presbytery of Saint Andre-the-Coast, at the time of the Revolution. Jean-Claude CHAVASSIEUX, was a man benevolent, very devoted, always ready to pay his person and of his own sums of money. Its name remains attached to the construction of the school and the town hall. Afterwards many hesitations, this building was built with high expenses and using communal loan. It cost of it 1600 F (244 €) for the purchase from the ground, 18.000 F (2744 €) for work and fees and 500 F (76 €) for school furniture. In same time, Jean-Claude CHAVASSIEUX tried, after Pierre CHAMBAUX (tenth mayor of Saint-Sorlin), to move the cemetery. He could lead because of the important expenditure only this project involved and of the hostility of part of the population. The field of Christinière " bought in 1858 by two young girls entered in religion under the names of sÏur holy Victoire and sister Francois, saint, in spite of many vicissitudes, had been set up in orphanage. In 1895, the Higher General one was Mère Marie of Passion, and Abbot PLAGNARD was the ecclesiastical Superior. The Abbot Jean-François BOTTLE, native of Lyon, ordered priest in 1872, was an initially professor, then vicar before being named Abbé has Saint-Sorlin. He exerted his priesthood until 1908. He had a temperament of artist, musician and poet. He was of an extremely significant nature, but held his parish " well in mains". He took care on all and all. One owes him of important transformations. He made build the stalls, pose the furnace bridges of the vaults of the Blessed Virgin and Saturnin Saint, replace the baptismal font and the Way of Cross. After the law laicizing the personnel of primary school education, the school of the sisters Saint-Charles, whose founder was Marie BENIERE was threatened. The nuns informed an about sixty children and were occupied, Sunday, of a certain number of adults. The Abbot BOTTLE, fearing the departure of the nuns, joined to the mayor to create a defense committee of the interests of the private school and asked the population to be accommodating and gave up part of his treatment for education of poorest. Contrary many villages have, Saint-Sorlin does not have significant historic buildings or vestiges of the past.

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Demography

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Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Rhone

External bonds

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

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