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Located on a belvedere at an altitude of 1000 meters at a place called “Le Perreu”, this chapel was built following a wish made by Joseph Marcellin Gellion, priest in Montperreux in 1871. This period was marked by the Prussians invading the region, this priest and the parishioners vowed to build a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes if the Virgin protected the parish. Their prayers were heard and no death occuted, no fighting, no destruction, no damage to people and homes during the war of 1870 in this town. Father Gellion died in 1873. Since the wish was granted, it was his successor, Father Auguste Donat Paquette, who undertook construction in 1889.
The stone was extracted from a quarry in the commune and the timber felled from a communal forest. Parishioners offered a certain number of days to prepare these materials for a contractor. All these acquisitions and constructions were carried out thanks to the generosity of many people. Our Lady of Lourdes was installed inside as well as a communion table made by Father Paquette. At that time, there was great devotion to the Virgin in this place. Several times a year a mass was celebrated there. For many years, the faithful went there in procession on August 15 for the blessing of children or at rogations in order to pray for the protection of the goods of the Earth aswell as in the month of May to recite the rosary. In 1983, lightning struck the bell tower as a warning not to forget this oratory and to restore it. In 1984, work was carried out: reconstruction of the local stone bell tower, replacement of the bell and installation of a door with a protective canopy.
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