Le Puy-en-Velay

He promised spiritual rewards for those who joined, and many in the crowd responded with a shout that the action was the will of God.

Bishop Adhemar of Lepuy became the first to take the cross.

People's Crusade Although the Pope intended the campaign for trained warriors, popular enthusiasm led to the departure of large groups of peasants and townspeople.

Led by figures like Peter the Hermit, these forces moved through Europe ahead of the official armies.

It's a very dark, costaud, very hearty red wine that has to be sat down for a long time, that one of the Roman discussed in some Roman century, B.C. century.

In that particular region people had to produce wine, most of it was bad wine, in order to trade the wine for something to eat, because the region, that particular region called the Vivarais, it doesn't matter, couldn't produce very much at all because of the rocky soil, and so they would trade their rather bad for lentils, for example, produced around Le Puy, higher up.

It doesn't matter.

Wine had always been, the details don't matter, so wine had always been produced.

The third army, led by Raymond of Saint-Gilles, the Count of Toulouse.

He's 55 years old, he's the oldest and most prominent of the princes, and he's accompanied by Adelmar, Bishop of Lepuy.

Le Puy, I think.

Le Puy, who the Pope names as Legate for the Crusade, which is a very Roman thing, being a legate.

Again, to repeat what I said, lots of the most part, most, the greatest percentage of Protestants are down here, again in the Ardèche, and in the Gare, down here in the Cévennes Mountains basically, also up in the Drôme on the other side of in the valleys that go down to the Rhone River into the Drome, T-R-O-M-E.

And the most famous case of Jewish children being saved is that of a Protestant village, which I'm going to write on the board because it deserves it, called Le Chambon-sur, Lignon, right on the edge of the Ardèche, near Lepuy, but in the mountains.

And what they did in this little teeny village is they organized this kind of false identification network, and they took Jewish kids from Saint-Étienne and Lignon and other places in that region.

I mean, that region is an area immigrants to its very Catholic region, but in this case in that village very Protestant, had sent lots of immigrants to Lyon and to Saint-Étienne.

I guess when they were dragging out the lady from the crypt, somebody went in and stole this, you know, and, and hid her until things calmed down.

Now, at one of the gateways of the French Camino, Our Lady of Le Puy is housed at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Puy.

Now, the original statue was a legendary black image originally given to the cathedral by King St. Louis IX in 1254 upon his return from the Crusades, and this image was carved from ebony and was clothed in a gold brocade.

This Madonna was deeply revered and was a pivotal Counter-Reformation image.

Uh, after the Reformation, [laughs] basically a lot of, uh, cathedrals and, um, sites along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela because the Re- the Reformation, uh, pooh-poohed pilgrimage.

And so the Catholics started, like, a PR campaign to attract pilgrims again, and they did this very, very vociferously and quite beautifully, if you ask me, with Our Lady of Le Puy during the Ca- you know, uh, Reformation and Counter-Reformation.

There were pamphlets put out and, uh, plays were written and lots of art.

Uh, if you go to Le Puy, there's a little, um, museum next to the cathedral, and there's really interesting paintings that were done in the 1600s of nobles surrounding this Black Madonna.

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the shadow of prince polignac by anthony trollope few englishmen or englishwomen are intimately acquainted with the little town of le puy it is the capital of the old province of le vell which also is now but little known even to french ears for it is in these days called by the imperial name of the departement of the haute it is to the south-east of auvergne and it is nearly in the centre of the southern half of france but few towns merely as towns can be better worth visiting In the first place, the volcanic formation of the ground on which it stands is not only singular in the extreme, so as to be interesting to the geologist, but it is so picturesque as to be equally gratifying to the general tourist.

Within a narrow valley there stand several rocks rising up from the ground with absolute abruptness.

round two of these town clusters, and a third stands but a mile distant, forming the centre of a faubourg or suburb.

These rocks appear to be, and I believe are, the harder particles of volcanic matter, which have not been carried away through successive ages by the joint agency of water and air.

when the tide of lava ran down between the hills the surface left was no doubt on a level with the heads of these rocks but here and there the deposit became harder than elsewhere and these harder points have remained lifting up their steep heads in a line through the valley the highest of these is called the rocher de corneille round this and up its steep sides the town stands on its highest summit there was an old castle and there now is or will be before these pages are printed a colossal figure in bronze of the virgin mary made from the cannon taken at sebastopol half way down the hill the cathedral is built a singularly gloomy edifice romanesque as it is called in its style but extremely similar in its mode of architecture to what we know of byzantine structures but there has been no surface on the rock side large enough to form a resting-place for the church which has therefore been built out on huge supporting piles which form a porch below the west front so that the approach is by numerous steps laid along the side of the wall below the church forming a wondrous flight of stairs let all men who may find themselves stopping at le puy visit the top of these stairs at the time of the setting sun and look down from thence through the framework of the porch on the town beneath and at the hillside beyond behind the church is the seminary of the priests with its beautiful walk stretching round the rocher de corneille and overlooking the town and valley below next to this rock and within a quarter of a mile of it is the second peak called the rock of the needle it rises narrow sharp and abrupt from the valley allowing of no buildings on its sides but on its very point has been erected a church sacred to st michael that lover of rock summits accessible by stairs cut from the stone this perhaps this rock i mean is the most wonderful of the wonders which nature has formed at la puy above this at a mile's distance is the rock of espagny formed in the same way and almost equally precipitous on its summit is a castle having its own legend and professing to have been the residence of char the seventh when little of france belonged to its kings but the provinces of berri auvergne some three miles farther up there is another volcanic rock larger indeed but equally sudden in its spring equally remarkable as rising abruptly from the valley on which stands the castle and old family residence of the house of polignac it was lost by them at the revolution but was repurchased by the minister of charles x and is still the property of the head of the race

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