Lyon (France) is a center of various places of pilgrimage, being visited by believers with fondness

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Nihil osta: The 30 martii 1941. Jul. Desofossez, censor. Imprimatur: Friburgi Helv, 30 Aprilis 1941. Ludwig Waeber, VG
Lyon (France) is a center of various places of pilgrimage, being visited by believers with fondness, as Lyon itself with Notre-Dame maine de Fourvière, his Martyrerstätten and many churches, then Notre Dame de La Salette, Dardilly, maine the birthplace of St.. Jean Marie Vianney, Ars, the sites of action of St. Pastor JB Vianney and Paray-le-Monial, the great sanctuary of the revelation of the love of the Divine Heart of Jesus. I have sometimes repeatedly visited all these places in 1935 and studied in detail. I give here in narrative form a description that can serve as a guide.
One of the most beautiful places of pilgrimage maine in the world is Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon (France). It takes its name from foro vetere, from ancient Roman Forum, here, 43 BC, was 300 feet above the Saône, built. Today there are from this forum, only a few foundations and fragments of columns, capitals, statues, etc. In contrast, it was discovered a few years ago in the immediate vicinity on the same hill the Roman theater with its retaining walls and deprived of marble seats.
Bishop POTHINUS, students of St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, was the first known missionary of Lyon. In the year 177 he bled to death as a martyr in the dungeon of the Roman forum, a little below the present basilica Notre-Dame de Fourvière. 25 years afterwards died a martyr, his successor, Bishop Irenaeus, with 19,000 Christians.
With the marble and the bricks of the Roman Forum, the collapsed 840, was built at whose feet the Cathedral of Sts. John the Baptist, as the Roman inscriptions testify to the bricks of the apse. Historically testified that between 1176 to 1187 on the old Roman Forum a chapel in honor of Our Lady and St. Thomas of Canterbury maine by the Dean of the Chapter of Lyons, was built by Olivier de Chavannes. In the 18th Century enlarged the architect maine Ferdinand Delemonce the chapel maine and made the interior an artistic gem. Above the high altar stands the wooden and held miraculous image of Our Lady with the Child, a replacement for the 1562 destroyed by the Huguenots statue. The chapel maine is blackened and stuffed voto images and plates with ex, as a votive tablet (front left) of St.. JBM Vianney of Ars, to commemorate the consecration of his parish to the Blessed maine Mother in 1836. Pius VII (1800-1823) was celebrated here on the main altar 19 April 1805 Mass.
In the 19th Century came so often hither St. JBM Vianney, Curé of Ars, so on 6 August 1823 with two-thirds of his parishioners, maine the Ven. Pauline Marie Jaricot (1799-1862), founder of "spreading the faith", Ven. John Claude Colin (1790-1875), founder of the Marist Brothers, the Ven. Joseph Benedict Champagnat (1789-1840), founder of the "Little Brothers of Mary", the hl. Alois Peter Chanel (1803-1841), the first martyr of Oceania, the Blessed Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868), founder of the fathers maine of St.. Sacrament, the Ven. Anton Chevrier (1826-1879), founder of the "work of Prado" in Lyon, the blessed martyrs Johann Alois Bonnard and Johann Peter Neel, etc. - I have the Holy Mass at the main altar in this ancient shrine on 20 and 28 August 1935 and on 8 and 22 September 1935 celebrated.
Lyon took in all the hardships to Our Lady of Fourvière refuge and found help, so in 1832 against cholera, in 1834 riot, in 1840 flood, in 1870 the German war invasion. 1870 Lyon made the vow, Notre-Dame de Fourvière to build a dignified sanctuary, if the Germans do not exceed the limits maine of the diocese. Maria helped. maine Lyon kept his vow. Today's magnificent maine basilica Notre-Dame de Fourvière was built. Peter Bossan, a brilliant architect, began construction in 1877, which was inaugurated in 1896. It is the same architect who created the basilicas of Ars and Louvesc. An unparalleled enthusiasm seized the Catholic people of Lyon, her according to the spirit of sacrifice. Architect Sainte-Marie Perrin of Lyons became maine an assistant of Peter Bossan.
The old chapel, whose tower is a gilded statue of the Virgin Mary remained composed. Links next to the Basilica should buy. Outside they should be inside a tower of David the Golden House, 86 meters long, 35 meters wide and 30 meters high. Four round-shaped towers standing at the four outside maine corners of the Basilica. The first look at the exterior and the interior makes the construction difficult, j