2024

THE CHAPEL OF MONFLIÈRES

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

With its modest appearance, the chapel is the 2nd great pilgrimage of the Somme. And so on. Around 1160, in this place, a shepherd would have seen the image of the Virgin Holy in a elm. The appearance was recognized as miraculous, and was at the origin of building the building. During its history, it will be expanded three times. In 1778, Queen Marie-Antoinette offered the Virgin of Monflières a golden sheet of gold, thanks for the birth of her daughter Marie Charlotte. Discover, among other things, the many ex-voto plates that line the walls.

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