Saint-Jean-Lagineste

Saint -Jean- Lagineste ( Occitan: La GINESTA ) is a municipality with 331 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Lot in the French region of Midi -Pyrenees.

Location

Saint -Jean- Lagineste located in the northeast of the cultural and culinary attractions exceedingly rich landscape of the Quercy. The capital of the Quercy, Cahors, is about 75 km ( driving distance ) away in a southwesterly direction. Until the capital of the canton of Saint -Cere there are just 8 km to the southwest. The to the ' Most Beautiful Villages in France ' scoring places Loubressac and Autoire are about 17 and 9 miles northwest.

Demographics

History

Saint -Jean- Lagineste was probably for centuries, only a small hamlet ( hamlet ), which only since the 1840s - after the construction of a church - further developed into a village.

Attractions

• The parish church of the village ( Saint -Jean l' Evangeliste ) dates from 1844 and is - a very rare patronage - dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist. It is a single-nave building with a retracted apse.
• The pilgrimage chapel on the Mont -Saint -Joseph ( 582 meters) consists of a square central structure with four apses on the ground floor, one of which connects directly behind the entrance portal, and an eight-sided floor with four slim double-glazed windows; on the northwest side is a slender stair tower. The chapel was in 1873, that is, only two years after losing the war against the German Empire, built. A major reason for the defeat saw many French people in a declining piety and sought therefore to meet this debt through a variety of new churches (see Sacré- Cœur de Montmartre). Since 1883 takes place annually a pilgrim pilgrimage to the chapel. Already in 1870, Pope Pius IX. St. Joseph was proclaimed patron saint of the Catholic Church. The Holy Family learned a centuries-old folk, but always supported by the official church worship.

• The so-called Menhir de Peyrousse or Menhir de Peyreficade is about 250 meters east of Saint -Jean- Lagineste. It is about 2.40 meters tall upright stone, the stone of smaller plates ( dalles ) is surrounded and partially supported. The support, the place of installation ( hang), and the surround with stone slabs suggest that it is not a monument of the megalithic culture, but to a much later established foundling. In about 500 meters there is another upright stone ( menhir de Roume ) with a height of about 2.10 meters; he seems to have been erected about the same time.