Guided tour of the Saint-Christophe church in Momères
The church of Saint-Christophe (and Saint-Jacques) of Momères is a place of history where several centuries of monastic and religious life are intertwined, the priory of the Ladies of Fontevrault installed on the banks of the Adour, from the thirteenth century, disappeared at the time of the wars of religion and the French Revolution, furniture of the nineteenth and twentieth century. A statue of the Virgin in gilded wood in front of which the young Bernadette Soubirous came to pray of which part of the family resided in Momères, baptismal font or was baptized Marie-Dominique Peyramale, future parish priest of Lourdes, a stone floor of Lourdes and the marble Benitiers of Campan... In the choir frescoes of exceptional pictorial quality representing the apostles and various testimonies of Bigourdane art and traditions...
Access
Voiture privée (stationnement devant l'église). Bus Tarbes - Bagnères (horaires : https://www.n-py.com/sites/n-py.com/files/2024-05/LR-960-au-02.04.2024…)
Phone
06 60 76 86 14
Address
Place Monseigneur Peyramale, 65360 Momères, Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie, France