Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The Little Chapel of Les Vauxbelets



Starting from dissatisfaction with the central government in power, then a group of priests from the French state decided to retreat to one of the islands in southern England. Familiar with the title in the Channel Islands, just in the year 1904 there and arrived they choose to reside Les Vauxbelets area.

Besides the religious, they are also very enthusiastic about education, and they founded a large school buildings and attractive at that time. 1923 and Abbe Deodat Cephas, start building a chapel (small church) around the school yard.

Small church that they built the basilica is a miniature shrine at Lourdes. Length is about 5 feet, 3 meters wide ranging, considered as the world's smallest church. Both priests are manifest through art work, love and dedication to the religion. For that entire walls and ceilings inside, outside wall also other parts of the church completed with decorative goods from broken glassware, various shells and small stones from the beach.

The church is not the first they built, but is that to 3. Previously they had built something similar in 1914, but were too small and so much criticized by both the priest was destroyed. So with that to 2 which is a perfect replica of Lourdes, once again assessed as too small and did not allow a priest to go and pray there with ease.

Settlement of the church to the 3 ends, Deodat priest returned to France and died shortly after World War II ended. We have a small church is handled by the maintenance of social institutions and assisted students from schools that used them myself.

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