Saint-Loup-sur-Cher

Eglise Saint-Loup

L'église Saint-Loup date de la fin du XIIème et du début XIIIème siècle. Elle se compose d'une nef de 3 travées, d'un choeur et d'une abside en hémicycle. La corniche du chevet est ornée de modillons sculptés et de contreforts-colonnes. Un ensemble de peintures murales, malheureusement très dégradées, décore l'abside: le Christ en majesté, et à gauche la Vierge et les sept dons du Saint-Esprit.

The church, dedicated to Saint Loup, (Lupo) dates to the late 12th and early 13th centuries. It consists of a three-bayed nave, a choir and a semicircular apse. The cornice of the chevet is adorned with carved corbels and column-buttresses. Wall paintings, unfortunately in a rather poor state of repair, decorate the apse: a majestas and, on the left, the Virgin and the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Saint Loup (ou Leu) (Lupo) : Loup de Troyes est né à Toul vers 383 (393) Il devint évêque de Troyes en 426. Il accompagna saint Germain d'Auxerre combattre le pélagianisme en Angleterre. En 451, Attila menaçant la ville de Troyes, il se fit prendre en otage et sauva la ville. Il mourut en 479. Patron des bergers. Invoqué contre les loups et la peur. Fêté le 29 juillet.

Saint Loup/ Leu (Lupo): Loup of Troyes was born at Toul c. 383 (393) He became bishop of Troyes in 426. He accompanied Saint Germain of Auxerre to fight Pelagianism in England. In 451, as Attila besieged the city of Troyes, he offered himself as a hostage and saved the town. He died in 479. Patron saint of shepherds. He is invoked against wolves and fear. Celebrated on July 29.

THE WALL PAINTINGS

(Isaïe, XI, 1-3)

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,

and a branch shal grow out of his roots:

And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,

the spirit of wisdom and understanding,

the spirit of counsel and might,

the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord

(Isaiah, 11: 1-3)

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