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Can anyone tell me where the famous reliquary of Ste. Foy would have been
placed in the church? Conques is always cited as one of the examples of the
five great pilgrimage churches (characterized by five aisles, an ambulatory,
linked peripheral spaces, lack of clerestory, etc.), with the understanding
that the way the architectural space was constructed had to do with the
demand by pilgrims to see/contact etc., the relics/reliquary. Would the
famous statue have been on the high altar? In a crypt below? For that
matter, does any one know whether Conques even had a crypt accessible to
pilgrms? Also, was the chancel separated? That is, where and how did
pilgrims access Ste. Foy?
I'd be grateful to anyone who could answer these questions, and/or point me
to anything in print.
Many thanks-
Cecilia
M.C.Gaposchkin, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College
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