Basilique de la Visitation
The Basilique de la Visitation ( German Basilica of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary ) is a Roman Catholic church above Annecy . The basilica, built between 1922 and 1930, is the chapel of the Salesian monastery of the Visitation of Mary and the place of the burial places of Franz von Sales (1567–1622) and Johanna Franziska von Chantal (1572–1641), who founded the motherhouse monastery in Annency in 1610 .
history
The Salesian Sisters moved into the newly built nunnery in 1911. The chapel, which was completed at the beginning of the 1930s, was created after a call for tenders with a nationwide competition, in which the architect Alfred-Henri Recoura (1864–1940) was ultimately commissioned with the plans. He designed a church in the fairly free neo-Romanesque style. The three-aisled hall church rests on a crypt with low arches designed by Henri Adé . The chapel was consecrated in 1949 by Cardinal Federico Cardinal Tedeschini . 1951 she was by Pope Pius XII. raised to the minor basilica .
inner space
The interior is in contrast to the simple external appearance. The columns in the nave are made of blue marble from Savoy, the mosaic in the apse is made of enamel from Venice and Briare. The windows depict the story of the founding saints. The corpses of the two saints lie on the two aisles in two gilded bronze sarcophagi. Two Christ crosses on two altars are the work of the statue maker Philippe Besnard (1949).
Bell tower
In 1930 the monumental bell tower was also completed. Under its stone cladding, the 72 m high tower has a reinforced concrete structure and is crowned by a bronze cross of 7 meters. It has a carillon of 38 bells weighing eight tons. The largest bell, named Marie Françoise, weighs four tons. The carillon is classified as a historical monument. On the occasion of Pope John Paul II's visit in 1986, two bells were cast by the Paccard foundry. The second of 160 kilograms, Karol , was integrated into the carillon of the basilica.
literature
- Raymond Oursel: Les chemins du sacré: L'art sacré en Savoie . La Fontaine de Siloé, coll. «Les Savoisiennes», 2008, 393 pp. ( ISBN 978-2-8420-6350-4 ), p. 161.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Basilica de la Visitation
- ^ Basilique Notre-Dame de la Visitation on gcatholic.org
Coordinates: 45 ° 53 '33.1 " N , 6 ° 7' 40.3" E