Chapelle de la Girouardiere, Bauge-en-Anjou

Croix de Lorraine, a 2 armed cross housing a piece of the True Cross, brought back from the Holy Land by the Baugeois crusader Jean Da'Alluye in 1244, and embedded in this cross by Louis I of Anjou in the 14th century, at the Chapelle de la Girouardiere, in Bauge-en-Anjou, Maine-et-Loire, France. The cross is in oak with gilded silver and pearls, with a sculpture of Christ and of the lamb and the dove. It was made in 1377. The cross was known as the Croix d'Anjou until King Rene married Isabelle of Lorraine in the 15th century, when it became the Croix de Lorraine. The cross was bought by Mother Anne de la Girouardiere, 1740-1827, and conserved it in the chapel. Picture by Manuel Cohen

Picture No

13459753

Media ID

45379932

Size

4724px x 7087px (7.4MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen