Statue, Church, Abbaye de Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines, Pyrenees-Orientales, France

Statue of Notre Dame de Lourdes, painted, wearing veil in attitude of prayer, in the abbey church of St Michael, now the parish church of Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines, consecrated 1153, in the Abbaye de Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. The Benedictine monastery was founded 778-80 by abbot Sentimirus, rebuilt in the 10th century and sacked in the French Revolution. The abbey is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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© Manuel Cohen

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