Statue, Abbaye de Saint-Hilaire, Aude, France

Reliquary statue of St Hilary, 1st bishop of Carcassonne, 18th century, at the Abbaye de Saint-Hilaire, a Benedictine abbey built 8th - 14th centuries and closed 1748, when it became a parish church, at Saint-Hilaire, Aude, Occitanie, France. 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. It is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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