Basilique Notre-Dame de Gray
The Notre-Dame de Gray basilica is the parish church of the town of Gray, in Franche-Comte. Attached to the diocese of Besancon, it is part of the parish of Notre-Dame de Gray. It was built in the 15th and 16th centuries, in a hybrid Gothic-Renaissance style, on the site of the first Notre-Dame church destroyed in 1477 during the War of the Burgundy Succession. Since 1641 it has housed the heart of Saint Pierre Fourier and since 1802 the miraculous statue of Notre-Dame de Gray. The possession of these two relics earned him the elevation to the title of minor basilica on July 16, 1948 by Pope Pius XII.