Sarcophagus of St Sernin, Saint-Hilaire-D'Aude

St Sernin arrested in Toulouse by Roman soldiers (right) and a bull dragging his body through Toulouse (left), on the sarcophagus of St Sernin, by the Master of Cabestany in Romanesque style, mid 12th century, in the Saint-Hilaire-D'Aude Abbey, built 11th - 14th centuries and closed 1748, when it became a parish church, Saint-Hilaire, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. The Roman soldiers have monstrous animals between their legs representing evil. People watch the scene from their windows, and on the right an acrobat on his rope stops to look. St Hilary built the first chapel on this site in the 6th century, dedicated to St Sernin. In the 10th century his relics were discovered here and the church, then an abbey, rededicated to St Hilaire. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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