Chapelle-musée des pénitents blancs

Om museet

The museum occupies a 12th-century Romanesque chapel on the church square in Marsac-en-Livradois. The building comprises a nave of two barrel-vaulted bays and a semi-domed apse; a 15th-century pentagonal turret houses a spiral staircase.

In 1644, the villagers asked Joachim d’Estaing, Bishop of Clermont, for permission to found a confraternity of pénitents blancs under the title of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. The confraternity disappeared during the Revolution, was revived under the Restoration and remained active until 1900.

The museum presents a collection of procession emblems and religious objects, which it describes as unique in France. A retrospective shows how a service unfolds, and a diorama recreates the Ténèbres procession, with sacks and hoods.

Højdepunkter

• Romanesque chapel from the 12th century
• Collection of procession emblems of the pénitents blancs confraternity
• Commented retrospective of a service with the penitents in their stalls
• Diorama of the Ténèbres procession

Permanent udstilling

• Collection des pénitents blancs – Procession emblems, religious objects, penitent mannequins, a retrospective of a service and a diorama of the Ténèbres procession.

Ejer

Commune de Marsac-en-Livradois

Entrépriser & rabatter

Full price of €4 indicated for summer 2026.

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