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.
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.
Church built on the initiative of Anne de Beaujeu, daughter of Louis XI, regent of the kingdom and viscountess of Carlat. The construction is undertaken from 1503 to 1522.
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