SAINT GILBERT ABBEY
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Visit an abbey with a church housing the relics of Saint Gilbert de Neuffonts, a place of pilgrimage to Saint-Didier.
Explanatory panels are displayed on the walls of the chapter house and provide information on the life of the former abbey and its founder. Photos of the work carried out since 1959 by the first rehabilitator, Mr. Lerat, up to the work since 1999 are also on display and allow you to realize the immense work that has been accomplished to save this heritage. The iconography relating to Saint Gilbert de Neuffonts must have been important in the past. This saint was indeed very venerated in the whole country and the Premonstratensian order made this saint known in Auvergne (before being from Bourbonnais). After his death on October 3, 1152, miracles occurred near his tomb. The abbey quickly became a place of pilgrimage. The completion of the church allowed the transfer of the founder's body to the building, which formalized and developed the pilgrimage. Over the decades, his cult spread. Gilbert became the patron saint of the Bourbonnais. The architecture of the monastery reflects the evolution towards ogival art. In the eastern wing, the first room to be built, the heating room, has groin vaults. It was the only heated room in the monastery, the place where the monks met to do manual work. The visit of these places is free. An urn is at the disposal of the visitors for a help, so small it is, for the maintenance and the love of the heritage.
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