Saugues

Saugues (in Occitan Saug ) is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Loire and the area Auvergne.

Geography

45 km in the west of the Puy-en-Velay

History

Old fortified town of the Gévaudan, it developed as of the 12th century under the authority of the bishops of Mende and the Seigneur S of Mercœur; its historical center was devastated by a Incendie in 1788.

It is in the Montagne S of the neighborhoods and close to Saugues that prevails the day before the Révolution, famous the Bête of Gévaudan, disaster report.

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle.
One comes from Monistrol-with Allier, the next commune is Chanaleilles, Dômerie of the Savage and the Vault Saint-Roch.
Saugues was the point of meeting of the pilgrims coming from Auvergne. Indeed, to the way coming from Brioude, which made it possible to avoid Puy by going up the valley Allier by Langeac, Chanteuges and the Forêt of Pourcheresse, were connected minor roads draining the pilgrims Cantal or Puy de Dôme.

The Brotherhood of the Penitent ones

History of the Brotherhood

It is on May 14th, 1652, under the initiative of five honourable inhabitants of Saugues, Antoine de Langlade lord of Courère, Jacques de Langlade lord of Valette, both canons of collegial Saint Medard, Jacques de Langlade royal notary, Benoît Paparic middle-class and Antoine Pichot apothecary, was founded in Saugues, with the pleasant authorization of monseigneur de Marcillac bishop of Mende, a brotherhood of Penitent White. She was to be affiliated to the archiconfrery of Notre-Dame de Gonfalon of Rome by a bubble of November 15th of the same year. At the time of the plague of 1721, which prevails with violence in Gévaudan, the penitent ones had made the wish go in procession the Whit Monday to the pilgrimage of Notre Dame d' Estours.

The brotherhood comprises around fifty today penitent the, resulting ones from all professions.

Extract of the site of Mr. Roger Combe.

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