St. Laurent

It is undoubtedly one of the oldest churches in the Pévèle. It was built around the 10th century, as evidenced by its bell tower, which is typical of the Carolingian era: a massive square bell tower made of sandstone and Roman tiles, rising three storeys.

Over the course of its history, the church has been inverted: the former chancel is now under the present porch. A hidden vestige probably bears witness to this period under the staircase leading to the gallery: an ancient bas-relief bearing the coat of arms of the de Chastel de la Howarderie family, who owned the seigneury of Aix for many years.

Over the centuries, the church has undergone several alterations. In 1835, the side walls were rebuilt, the windows lengthened and the side walls raised. The building was completely restored by the municipality in 2017, under the direction of François Bisman, heritage architect.

Instead, in order to respect the Pope's last wishes, he distributed the wealth to the poor and then presented it to the court. He declared that the faithful, the true treasures of the Church, ‘never diminish and always increase’. This sentence earned him a death sentence in 258, more precisely on a heated iron bed formed into a grill. The iconography makes a point of depicting him undergoing his martyrdom: either with a grill or with a palm of martyrdom. He is the patron saint of cooks, roasters, booksellers, archivists and the poor, and is also invoked, as in Aix, for burns and skin diseases. His feast day is 10 August.

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