CHAPELLE DE NOTRE-DAME-DE-PITIÉ
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One of the oldest chapels outside the walls, a jewel of Baroque art built to house an abandoned statue of the Virgin
The Notre-Dame de Pitié chapel in Castelnaudary, located at the foot of the new castle of Arri, built outside the city walls in the 16th century, is the most beautiful and one of the oldest of all the chapels that have existed outside the walls over the centuries. According to tradition, at an undetermined time, a statue of the Virgin Mary was found abandoned in a pile of rubble near the Porte Saint-Antoine. To repair this desecration, it was decided to build a chapel where the statue would be kept, in a well-chosen place, since pilgrims going to Santiago de Compostela could stop to pray without entering the town. It is considered a jewel of Baroque art, in fact, it is decorated with ten panels on the Holy Week of the eighteenth century retracing the Passion of Christ, from the Entry of Jesus in Jerusalem to the crucifixion. These works by three different masters are of exceptional quality. During the French Revolution, in order to avoid the sale of the chapel as a national asset, about thirty inhabitants of the Saint Antoine district acquired it. The Virgin of Pity in gilded and polychrome wood (16th century), the panelling and the altarpiece were classified as historical monuments on September 30th 1911. In 1972, the municipality bought the chapel for a symbolic franc, it was given back to the cult in 1981.
Religious service on the1st Friday of the month at 9:30 am. Few places available.
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