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Tympan - Remise de la Relique de la Ceinture

Tympan - Delivery of the Relic of the Belt

Geoffroy Botrel, Seigneur de Quintin, rapportant de Terre Sainte, un fragment du tissu de la ceinture de la Vierge

Ch.P. Foulonneau
1898

Quintin / Tympan - Remise de la Relique de la Ceinture

Description

Tympan with a sculpture group showing Notre Dame de Délivrance (Our Lady of Deliverance), sitting on a throne, flanked by kneeling figures of Geoffroy Botrel, the Lord of Quintin, (left) and the Patriarch of Jerusalem (right). Botrel holds the box with a relic of Our Lady's belt, which the Patriarch (Robert de Nantes was patriarch 1240-1254) had given to him. The Notre-Dame de Délivrance Basilica still holds this relic, brought back from the Holy Land by Botrel in 1250.
The background is a relief of the church with a ribbon with the text n.d. de delivrance - protegez novs

Coats of arms of Quintin (left) and ?

Inscription(s)

Signed: ch:p: fovlonneav. 1898

Annotation

The Notre-Dame de Délivrance Basilica which holds a relic of Our Lady's belt, brought back from the Holy Land by Geoffroy Botrel, the Lord of Quintin, in 1250.

Sculptor

Charles-Paul Foulonneau, sculptor from Quintin.

Sources & Information

Paroisse Notre-Dame-de-Délivrance, L'architecture.

Locatie (N 48°24'12" - W 2°54'32") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frbr135; Photograph: 1 June 2012
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