The Church of Notre-Dame (french: Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption) is the village church of

Cudot Cudot () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Yonne department The following is a list of the 423 communes of the Yonne department of France. The communes cooper ...

in Yonne department (

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...

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). It is dedicated to

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and it is a church of the Archdiocese of Sens-Auxerre. It is known to shelter the relics of St

Alpaïs of Cudot Alpaïs (Alpaida, Alpaidis) of Cudot (died 1211) is venerated by the Catholic Church as a Blessed. Born into a peasant family of Cudot, in the diocese of Sens, she contracted leprosy at a young age. Her ''vita'' was written by the monk Peter o ...

, who died in 1211.

History

The church of Cudot was built in the 12th century. The statue of Saint Alpaïs was erected at the top of the facade in 1874, when Pope

Pius IX Pope Pius IX ( it, Pio IX, ''Pio Nono''; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878, the longest verified papal reign. He was notable for convoking the First Vatican ...

confirmed the cult of the saint. She lived as a hermit in Cudot, after being miraculously cured of a serious skin disease. Her only nourishment was the

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. The Gothic tympanum of the portal made in 13th century by order of Bishop

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recalls the

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of the Virgin Mary, with her corpse flanked by two angels and with arches of flowers. In the nave, the copper and glass reliquary made in 19th century under the altar shows the lying saint. Every Monday after

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a procession and a solemn mass are organized by the diocese. The church was registered in 1976 as a ''

monument historique ''Monument historique'' () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which National Heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a coll ...

''.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Church Of Notre Dame, Cudot 12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in France Cudot, Church Of Notre Dame Cudot, Church Of Notre Dame