CHAPELLE SAINT BLAISE DES SIMPLES
91490 Milly-la-Forêt
Ticket Nº 6754
2,50 €
The chapel is the only vestige of a malady of the 12th century, Saint Blaise ayant the reputation of being a expert on medicinal plants, called "simple". Au XVIIIe siècle, the léproserie tomba en ruine, il ne subsistait que la chapelle. Since its restoration in 1959, the old chapel was decorated by Jean Cocteau and resided in the old town in 1945. The painting of glass and fresh murals representing respectively the Resurrection of Christ and medicinal plants, the simple things that were named in the chapel. Upon his death in 1963, Cocteau wanted to enter this place, his body was transferred in 1964 to the chapel where it was previously decorated.
Merci à Gilles K.

































