Consecrated to Léger d'Autun and devoted to Catholic worship, the church has long belonged to the bishopric of Clermont but has depended since the French Revolution on the diocese of Saint-Flour.
The church overlooks the surrounding valley and, like many others in Auvergne, has a stocky silhouette: its eight-bay bell-tower-porch, topped by a low four-sided spire, dominates it.
The church was originally the priory of the women's abbey of La Vassin (Saint-Donat). During the wars of religion, the church was used as barracks (there are still remains of machicolation).
The Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Olives is located in Murat, Auvergne. A fire ravaged the building in 1493, but it was immediately rebuilt in its current layout. The building has a long nave with a choir with flat chevet. Enlarged over time, the church is now topped by a bell-tower that also serves as a porch. The Gothic style interior houses classified furniture: altars and altarpieces of the seventeenth century, priestly objects and several statues including a Notre-Dame-des-Oliviers.
Built outside the fortifications of the castle and those of the upper town, it bears witness to a composite ensemble of multiple constructions, fires and restorations.
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