Chapel of Notre-Dame de la Consolation, Thiezac
Ancient pilgrimage chapel that seems to have been built at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century and restored in the 15th century, following the wars that devastated the region.
Ancient pilgrimage chapel that seems to have been built at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century and restored in the 15th century, following the wars that devastated the region.
At the beginning of the 16th century, a peddler is said to have brought back from Cahors a statue of the Virgin for his wife who disappeared and reappeared several times near a rose hip bush where this church was built.
The church was built mainly during the 12th century in the pure Romanesque style of the region. Three centuries later, two side chapels were added and the edifice took the shape of a cross.
The Chapel with its fresco decorations depicting scenes from the Passion had to be undertaken by Louis III of Anjony, lord of the place since 1526, to compensate for the fact that attendance at the parish church had become impossible for them after the assassination of the parish priest by the Tournemire family.