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From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> 3) Brice (d. 444).
the church of the former Marmoutier priory of St. Martin just outside the
medieval city of Chartres (about a mile from the Cathedral) was re-dedicated
(in the 17th c., or after the revolution?) to St. B. and is one of the most
substantial medieval buildings in the modern city, a precious and rare
survival of 11th c. architecture (and sculpture) in the region:
http://ariadne.org/cc/abbeys/st-martin/westfacade.jpg
http://www.leolagrangechartres.com/uploads/images/photos/LesAbbayesStBrice.jpg
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0821/sap01_tcf03528_p.jpg
http://ariadne.org/cc/abbeys/st-martin/nave.jpg
it is also one of the oldest churches in and around Chartres.
there are Merovingian capitals in its crypt and, i am told, the the ruins of a
very, very large and substantial "basilica-like" (presumably secular) building
were unearthed a few years ago:
http://ariadne.org/cc/abbeys/st-martin/romanruins.html.
Canon Yves Delaporte
"Chartres" in the Dictionnaire d'histoire et géographie écclésiastique, XII
(1953), col. 560
believed that St. Martin's/Brice's "appears to occupy the site of the first
Christian cemetery of the Chartrain church; several of oldest known bishops'
tombs have been found there, and there are Merovingian sarcophagii to be seen
in the present church, which was itself rebuilt around the beginning of the
11th century."
c
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