LA ROCHEPOT CHURCH
This Romanesque church was built in the twelfth century by the Benedictine monks of Flavigny, to which it served as priory. It houses a painting by Marco Oggiono, a pupil of Leonard de Vinci. A work whose history is colourful, this oil on wood of 16th century represents Sainte Catherine of Alexandria holding in her hands the instruments of her martyrdom: the sword which beheaded her and the steel-tipped wheel of her torture. She had stayed in the Pot family until the Revolution, she was then thrown through the window at the devastation of the castle. The mayor picked her up and put her in the church. But the painting was stolen in 1975 and recovered in Ghent in very poor condition. Restored in the workshops of the Louvre, it recently returned to Rochepot.
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