Les Ponts-de-Cé

Eglise Saint-Aubin

L'église Saint-Aubin date des XIIème et XVème siècles. La nef est romane, et les chapelles lambrissées ainsi que les voûtes du chœur datent du XVème siècle.

The church, dedicated to Saint Aubin, dates to the 12th and 15th centuries. The nave is Romanesque and the panel-vaulted chapels as well as the vaults of the chancel date back to the 15th century.

Saint Aubin was born in the diocese of Vannes in 470. After a childhood devoted to prayer, he soon left his family to become a monk. One day, the abbot of the monastery sent him to a neighbouring village. While he was carrying out his mission, a huge amount of rain fell on the house he had come to visit. The roof collapsed and all those present were drenched. Aubin was the only one to be spared; not a drop of rain touched him. Abbot of his monastery at the age of thirty-five, he rekindled the fervour of the early times among his brethren. But when the bishop of Angers died, the clergy and the people of the diocese elected him unanimously, and his had to accept the heavy burden of the episcopacy.

CYGIST LE CORPS DE DEFYNTE

IN PACE

HERE LIES THE BODY OF THE LATE

ANNE REVEAU WHO DIED on 15

February one thousand seven hundred and fifty

Five Aged thirty one wife

Of honest jacques main (Jacquemain)

In his lifetime master joiner of

The city of Angers Consequently

The body of his wife was

Buried in the cemetery of the

Parish of Saint-Aubin at

Les Ponts-de-Cé At a distance of

Ten feet from the church For the peace

Of her Soul Requiescat

IN PACE

Right: Christ before Cataphas (painted stone, 17th century)

THE WALL PAINTINGS

SOUTH CHAPEL

La chapelle funéraire fut construite en 1530 par un riche marchand nommé Jean Vachon. Le donateur, mort en 1543, et son fils Blaise sont représentés sur le mur sud de la chapelle.

The funerary chapel was built by a rich merchant, whose name was Jean Vachon. The donor, who died in 1543, iand his son Blaise are represented on the south wall of the chapel.

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