Conques

One of the most special, about an eight days walk southwest of Le Puy, is Conques, its name describing its conch-like shape set into a small mountain and bordered by rivers below ..

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Journey for Body and Soul: The St. Jacques de Compostelle Pilgrimage Trail 2010

An 11th century Romanesque Abbey is the centerpiece of Conques and it provides abode and comfort to over 100 pilgrims a night during the high season of the pilgrimage, from May to September; the village has concerts and street markets and a spirit of faith drawn from its patron saint, a fourth century adolescent martyr, Sainte Foy.

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Journey for Body and Soul: The St. Jacques de Compostelle Pilgrimage Trail 2010

Mr. Pryce's idea of masterworks embraces the expected (the Taj Mahal, the Pantheon and several European cathedrals), but also the delightfully surprising, such as the French pilgrimage church Sainte-Foy in Conques.

A Wedding of Skill and Style 2008

Conjecture allows us to designate a vague area between Pomposa and Conques, with reasonable likelihood that the community was somewhere along the central ridge of the Apennines, between Piedmont, Liguria, and France.

The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

The following are also of interest: -- Sauveterre, founded in 1281, a striking example of the bastide (_q. v._) of that period; Conques, which has

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

His relation depends upon the authority of Audald, a monk of Conques in the diocese of

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

In 838 Pepin, King of Aquitaine, gave the monastery of Figeac to Conques.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Between 877 and 883 the monks carried off the body of the youthful martyr Ste-Foy from the monastery of Sainte Foy to Conques, where it became the object of a great pilgrimage.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Conques, with Agen and Schelestadt in Alsace, was the centre of the cult of Ste.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Saint, which in 1590 was hidden in the masonry connecting the pillars of the choir, was found in 1875, repaired, transferred to the cathedral of Rodez for a novena, and brought back to Conques, a distance of 25 miles, on the shoulders of the clergy.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913