The Hospital-Saint-Blaise

See also: Saint-Blaise

the Hospital-Saint-Blaise , Ospitalepea in Basque, is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.

It is located in the Basque province of Soule of which it constitutes one of the Eastern communes.

The name of inhabitant is Ospitales .

Geography

The Hospital St-Blaise is a village Souletin on Lausset, tributary of the Gave d' Oloron.

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by the brook the Lausset, which emerges in the Gave d' Oloron, like by its affluent, the Aiguette brook.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym Hôpital Saint-Blaise appears in the forms Commanderie de Misericordi (1334, notaries of Oloron), Saint-Blas (1670, payment of the States de Navarre), the Hospital of Saint-Blaise of Mercy (XVIIIe century, intendance of Pau).

History

The Hospital Saint-Blaise ( Ospital means “large house”) is an old hospital foundation on the ways of Saint-Jacob de Compostelle. In fact the Chanoine S of the Holy-Christine abbey of the Somport built in the middle of XIIe century a " hospital of miséricorde" whose remains only the church registered with the World heritage of humanity by UNESCO. Work of restoration revealed that the frame was mainly of origine.
On the way of Pyrenean Piedmont, the village of 77 inhabitants always accommodates many visitors and pilgrims, amateurs of Architecture, Art, Histoire and Religion.
Holy Blaise, is regarded as the guard of the shepherds, the wool carders and the stone masons. Formerly, a pilgrimage in its honor was organized three days lasting at the beginning of February. Hairs, feathers and other effects belonging to the animals of the farm were thrown in a fire lit on the place to call upon the protection of the cattle.

Administration

Intercommunality

The Hospital-Saint-Blaise belongs to seven inter-commune structures:
  • the Community of communes of Drunk-Xiberoa
  • trade union for the support for the Basque culture
  • forest mixed trade-union of the oak groves of the Basque valleys and inhabitants of Béarn
  • intercommunity association for the construction and the operation of THESE of Mauléon
  • trade union AEP of Navarrenx
  • trade union of cleansing of the Country of Drunk
  • departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

The figure of population of 2004 is a provisional population established by INSEE.

Economy

The activity is primarily turned towards agriculture (corn and breeding).

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

The mill is in the course of restoration.

Religious heritage

A Christian sanctuary (archeological site) is registered with the historic buildings since 1888.
Built out of stone ocher by the Canon S of the Holy-Christine abbey of the Somport, the church of the Hospital-Saint-Blaise is a jewel of architecture, mixes between Navarrese Romanesque arts and Byzantine: in the shape of Greek cross, in the center of which an octagonal bell-tower recovers a cupola whose architecture reveals influences Hispano-Moorish.
Admirably preserved since XIIe century, one finds there windows deep with Claustra sometimes decorated with sculptures, the arcs Polylobé S and a Coupole Octogonal E on Trompe S smooth. Supported by arcs intersected forming a star with 8 branches, this cupola recalls what was done with Cordoue.

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

Personalities related to the commune

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