Circuit de découverte de Saints-Geosmes

Although flints from the Neolithic period, a Gallo-Roman necropolis and scattered traces of settlements have been found on the plateau and in the Bonnelle valley, it was the cult of the relics of the Twin Saints, which came from Cappadocia and led to the construction of an oratory and then a basilica, that gave rise to the village. The fact that these relics were deposited outside the Lingon town can be explained by Bishop Apruncule's desire to Christianise a place of pagan worship: hence the establishment of a monastery with a basilica to welcome pilgrims and a vast Christian necropolis dating from the Merovingian period (5th-8th centuries)...


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