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8 unusual facts about Rocamadour


Clement of Ireland

The 17th-century hagiographer John Colgan, in his Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae (Louvain, 1645) says that he was living in 818, and gives the date of Clement's death as 20 March and the place as Auxerre, where he was interred in the church of Saint-Amator.

Louise Dale

On the school trip they visit the town of Rocamadour where their adventures really begin as they embark on a treacherous quest to unlock some secrets of the past that will take them back to Ice Age caves and medieval castles.

Montvalent

Montvalent is just 10 minutes by car to the famous pilgrimage site of Rocamadour and pilgrims often stopped in the village on their way.

Obazine Abbey

The Obazine Abbey had foundations in Limousin and Quercy, as farms all around Rocamadour, a famous sacred place of pilgrimage.

Pannonie

La Pannonie is an old village of the Lot region, between Gramat and Rocamadour, situated since the 19th century in the commune of Couzou.

Traders living in the Caretta castle, in the city of Rocamadour, made the first castle of La Pannonie.

Rocamadour

In her book-length poem, "Solitude," Vita Sackville-West uses Rocamadour in her dedication, as site and setting for inspiration.

It is now well established that Saint Martial, Amadour's contemporary in the legend, lived in the 3rd not the 1st century, and Rome has never included him among the members of the Apostolic College.


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