Saint Louis Church, La Chapel-Saint-Sépulcre
Founded in 1254, the church of La Chapel Saint Sépulcre is located in the Loiret. It would seem that Saint Louis, who vowed to deliver the Holy Sepulcher in the Holy Lands, is the origin of the name of the church. In the interior there is a beautiful tabernacle (17th-18th century) and a carved group representing a religious scene: Saint Marcoul blessing a kneeling St. Louis (late 16th century).
About this building
Founded in 1254, the church of La Chapel Saint Sépulcre is located in the Loiret in the agricultural region of Gatinais. It would seem that St. Louis, who vowed to deliver the Holy Sepulcher in the Holy Lands, gives the church its name.
The building, which has been reworked many times, has a single nave of rectangular plan extended by a choir. A sacristy is attached to the north wall of the choir while a bell-tower wasinstalled in the seventeenth century and rebuilt in 1892, over the nave. One enters the church through a large porch (XVIIe century) on the western side.
Inside you will admire the tabernacle (seventeenth-eighteenth century) and several statues including one of St. Sebastian (sixteenth century) and a carved group representing St. Marcoul and St. Louis (late sixteenth century): we see a religious figure (Saint Marcoul 490-558) putting his hand on the head of kneeling St. Louis. It seems that the kings of France, after their coronation in Reims, went to the nearby village of Corbeny where the relics of Saint Marcoul (a Saint invoked to heal a large number of diseases, including a kind of tuberculosis) were preserved.
