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From: Revd Gordon Plumb <[log in to unmask]>
> Especially, perhaps, Wikipedia!
oh, i don't know; in this case that Wiki
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Gilduin
looked pretty good.
i've thought, for many years, that Champhol was an interesting place, since i
first saw it in '66, a relatively small church with a *huge* spire rising out
of the plain of the Beauce, across the valley from the cathedral.
when i first came there it was still closed for repairs after a bombing in May
of 1944 --a *tiny* airfield is nearby (noted in the summers of ces temps la
for its gliders which soared silently over the cathedral).
it was that airfield which was the target of the allied bomber which was
attacked by German a fighter, forcing the former to fly over the city and
release its half dozen bombs, which landed in a string which can still be seen
(if you look hard for post-war houses in the old town), through the basse
ville, up to the haute ville, south of the cathedral.
one of those bombs scored a direct hit on the Hôtel Montescot, which housed
the library
http://www.ariadne.org/cc/mss/chartresmss/montescot44.jpg
destroying (or doing its best to destroy) 800 manuscripts, many of them
medieval.
Champhol's late 11th c. church has a number of interesting features --a stone
vaulted apse, over a small crypt, and a rare sort of portal on its north side,
with a continuous (unbroken) arch which is carved from bottom to top with a
curiously incised design.
nothing significant has ever been published on the place, to my knowledge.
c
> In a message dated 25/08/2011 17:16:25 GMT Daylight Time,
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> From: Revd Gordon Plumb <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Christopher
> > Thanks for that information.
>
> no problemo, Gordon.
>
> but, don't believe everything you see on The Innernets.
>
> c
>
>
> > In a message dated 25/08/2011 14:41:16 GMT Daylight Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
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> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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> > From: Revd Gordon Plumb <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > > St Louis
> > > Depicted on the left in this shot from Bay 200 in Chartres
> Cathedral:
> >
> > > _http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2842748145/_
> >
> > "Gilduin was a Breton saint who refused a bishopric offered him by
> Gregory
> > VII."
> >
> > and died at St. Peter's of Chartres and was buried there.
> >
> > and was re-invented in the 1120s(?), perhaps as part of a building
> > campaign in
> > the choir and apse.
> >
> > whoever wrote this Wikipedia entry
> > Monumenta Germaniae Historica, xx, 517-45,
> > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Gilduin
> >
> > notes that his relics were "retrouvées par hasard en 1944 dans le mur
> > fissuré par une bombe de l’église de Champhol, non loin de
Chartres,
> où
> > elles avaient été dissimulées pendant la Révolution."
> >
> > which is News to me.
> >
> > Champhol, the little church with the massive tower which can be seen
> > looking
> > east and across the valley of the Eure from the "bishop's garden" off
> the
> > apse
> > of the cathedral, was an important priory of St. Peter's, documented as
> > such
> > from the middle of the 11th c.
> >
> > c
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