Places of worship

Duration of the visit on foot: 2 h 00. Relatively easy hiking route. Access to Notre-Dame de Beauregard by car. This cultural and historical journey begins at the centre of the village, place de la Liberté, by the parish church of the assumption, dating from 1325. To access the parish church parvis, borrow the monumental staircase iron horse of the 19th century. On the square, near the Town Hall, at the base of the Church, a cross fashioned cast-iron overcomes a stone altar where, once in certain circumstances, the town priest officiated. It replaced an old wooden cross, supporting a very large Christ. The first church stood in the grounds of the village of Savoy, at the foot of the ruins of the Castle. The Church current, ritually oriented East-West, dated 1325. The Bell Tower was built in 1660, year of the passage of the King Louis XIV in Orgon. Its carillon still has its eight bells: a large Bell bronze named in 1754 by the name of Anne-Marie and seven cast steel placed in 1862. Sober but elegant Provençal-Gothic style, it includes an apse five sides and a single nave stone naked, higher than the apse, all vaulted warheads. The choir, which dates from the 14th century, is the oldest part of the Church. It presents the amazing feature to be oblique to the central axis of the Church, evocation of the inclination of the head of Christ on the cross. Only three churches in France have this feature. The high altar, in marble, was placed in 1825. In the eighteenth century took trim is adorned with five paintings of the classical period, listed by the historical monuments on July 12, 1971. A magnificent triptych "The Virgin and child between Saints Peter and Paul" is part of Provençal painting masterpieces from the 16th century. The first Marian Chapel is dedicated to the Virgin. The miraculous statue of Notre-Dame de Beauregard took place on the altar in marble of 1837. A renaissance style, four openings Lantern highlight vaults whose engraved stone 1611 evokes the origin. The furniture is complemented by a confessional Walnut 18th. The second chapel, Sainte Anne, has an eight-sided Lantern style renaissance and two stained glass windows that frame the stone altar, topped by a portico in pink marble from 1804. The statue of Sainte Anne occupies a niche in stone. The chapel of the Sacred Heart houses the baptismal, former stoup of the convent of Beauregard supported by an ancient column discovered on Beauregard Hill. A statue of Sainte Thérèse and another of Saint Anthony of Padua adorn this part of the Church. On the left of the choir, is the chapel of Pentecost, formerly chapelle Sainte Thérèse of the child Jesus. The move to Orgon convicts who wished to attend the mass were attached to two solid iron rings, still visible today. A niche contains the statue of St. Louis de Gonzague. The door leads to the organ, which was inaugurated by Bonnard Canon on August 15, 1873. In the St. Joseph Chapel, a statue of Joan of arc is based on a column. The last chapel of the souls of purgatory, is more modest. This sanctuary is also an extensive necropolis. Five chapels contain burials of many families Orgonnaises, priests and monks who administered the parish. The Church has also sixteen paintings of high quality described in the product monograph of gentlemen Fages and Tertian where we draw our sources.This route continues with the path of oratories which leads to Notre-Dame de Beauregard. To get there, turn right after the presbytery and take the steep trail to the esplanade of the chapel. The statue of the Virgin Mary cast was erected before the first world war on a monumental fountain of the village. This ancient celto-Ligurian oppidum was a religious center well before the Christian era, as evidenced by the numerous remains of cults such as the Gallo-Roman altars exposed today in the lapidary Museum of Avignon. They honoured the Greco-Roman deities. In 1878 the Bonnard Canon, cure Dean of Orgon, had built on the site of the old place of worship the present Chapel. It housed a wooden statue of the Virgin which was a miraculous spell: after having been precipitated by the Baron des Adrets on 8 September 1562, at the bottom of the cliff, it remained intact and only the ear of the child Jesus bore a mark. An atoning monument, erected in the gardens, commemorates this miracle. Other miracles followed. The faithful dedicated ex-votos and organized many pilgrimages and processions by the path of the oratories. This statue is now in the parish church. The way of the cross in the Chapel is the work of a famous sculptor of the 19th century Louis-Félix Chabaud. The cupolas in stone size, perfectly adjusted on a moulding in a now defunct technology, demonstrate architectural know-how of the companions of the 19th century. The monastery, which replaced the secular Chapel, was built between 1638 and 1660 and hosted until 1789 the Discalced Augustinians. We visit the ex-votos, the village Museum and temporary exhibitions room. In the walled enclosure of 1592, the monumental cross of the brotherhood of the grey Penitents of Avignon, who received the blessing of Pope Pius X, on 20 August 1903 evokes the religious fervour of the faithful.This walk is complemented by the discovery of the site of the Saint-Roch chapel on the Hill Mont Sauvy. To get there from the Municipal Tourist Office, cross the D7n, turn right at the beginning of the path of the Mine and, at the very beginning of the path of the Piellettes, reassemble the jewelled path of Saint-Roch. The Chapelle Saint-Roch is located on the wooded site of Mount Sauvy. The cross that you have exceeded was established in 1803 to bear witness to the religious revival that succeeded the revolution. Saint Roch, born at the end of the 13th century and has his life during worked for the pest-stricken, a chapel on this site, built in the 17TH century and enlarged in 1720. That year, a terrible plague epidemic upsets the Provence. Orgon, scourge makes victims, but the number of deaths was low compared to the surrounding communities. The Orgonnais with their consuls then made the vow, to thank the Providence of have issued them from this risk, to organize on 16 August of each year a solemn procession to the St.-Roch Chapel. Two other chapels, Saint-Gervais and Saint-Véran, not assigned to worship, stand in the Orgonnais landscape. Check it out on the village plan.The chapel Saint-Gervais was built in the 15th century for the burial of the Elzéar de Mouriès family who founded the Hospital of Orgon in 1428. The building was stone. The Priory of Saint Gervais was served by a priest to which an annuity of 599 pounds was allocated to fulfill his office. The building is stone, one of the two foothills of the west facade remains. Very damaged, she is the subject of a rehabilitation project.The chapel Saint-Véran is situated in a private property on the edge of the path of Saint-Véran. The quality of volumes and the perfection of the apparatus of this building largely in ruins make it one of the most characteristic of Romanesque Provence. It was a single nave with a barrel vault resting on the timbers and based on an apse apse, with each side of the entrance to the apse of the rubble decorated with rinceaux patterned vegetal and geometric, with a side-chapel to the South. He remained in State that the eastern part of the building including the well-preserved apse. High in honor of Saint Véran, Bishop of Cavaillon, it was plundered and destroyed by the Saracens, rebuilt in the 10th century, it recognizes the stones adorned with Roman sculptures that were used for its construction, walls also carry lapidary signs or marks of jobbers including of Pontius, owner of the chapel Saint Gabriel at Tarascon.

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