Page 11 - site Therese Massot artist-painter-sculptor has Saint-Esteve. Inauguration rules holy-Germaine has
saint-Paul-of-fenouillet
saint-Paul-of-fenouillet
Sainte-Germaine
Saint-Paul-Of-Fenouillet - Pyrenees-Eastern (France)
Saint-Paul-Of-Fenouillet - Pyrenees-Eastern (France)
Germaine Cousin, born in 1579 in Pibrac (Haute-Garonne) died in 1601. Become very quickly orphan of
mother and her father being remarié, it was rejected by his mantle. Germaine kept the sheep in edge of the
forest of Bouconne. She liked to take part in the morning mass, was good for the poor and could speak
about God. In spite of the three marvellous facts that the tradition brings back (miracle of the flowers, of the
crossing of Coubet and the stopper rod) its holiness remained hidden. One day of December 1644, while
opening in the church fall it from the Cousin family to bury there a relationship, one discovered the body of a
young person-girl preserved perfectly. Its neck was marked scars and its deformed right hand. Some
inhabitants recognized Germaine Cousin. For four centuries, the lord has not ceased granting its thanks to
those which call upon the small shepherdess of Pibrac. The Church béatifié Germaine Cousin in 1854 and
declared it holy in1867.
For several decades, the statue of Sainte-Germaine had disappeared from her niche located on the Way of the Thermal
baths, in Clue of Insane It had been concealed by plunderers which, since the post-war period, steal the religious works of
art of good Fenouillèdes.Un numbers of Saint-Paulais allotted to this disappearance the many family dramas which since
touched the population of the parish.
Thérèse MASSOT gave again the life to him. On the request and the insistence of Marie-Carmen Milares, a artist-friend of
the village, Thérèse Massot was contacted. She agreed to make it reappear her hands while taking as a starting point
documents of time, so that she finds the place which she should never have left.
Ceremony, blessing and installation of the statue.
Saturday September 4, 2004, a ceremony thus took place in Clue of Insane In the presence of many parishioners,
Bernard Foulquier, mayor of Saint-Paul in his short speech, first of all thanked the artist and the persons in charge for the
blessing for this work. Two guards. After the blessing of this statue by the Domenica abbot and the installation in his niche,
the mayor invited the people present at glass of the friendship, after having pointed out that Saint-Paul-of-Fenouillet was
now protected in north by Saint-Anthony de Galamus and the south by Sainte-Germaine.
mother and her father being remarié, it was rejected by his mantle. Germaine kept the sheep in edge of the
forest of Bouconne. She liked to take part in the morning mass, was good for the poor and could speak
about God. In spite of the three marvellous facts that the tradition brings back (miracle of the flowers, of the
crossing of Coubet and the stopper rod) its holiness remained hidden. One day of December 1644, while
opening in the church fall it from the Cousin family to bury there a relationship, one discovered the body of a
young person-girl preserved perfectly. Its neck was marked scars and its deformed right hand. Some
inhabitants recognized Germaine Cousin. For four centuries, the lord has not ceased granting its thanks to
those which call upon the small shepherdess of Pibrac. The Church béatifié Germaine Cousin in 1854 and
declared it holy in1867.
For several decades, the statue of Sainte-Germaine had disappeared from her niche located on the Way of the Thermal
baths, in Clue of Insane It had been concealed by plunderers which, since the post-war period, steal the religious works of
art of good Fenouillèdes.Un numbers of Saint-Paulais allotted to this disappearance the many family dramas which since
touched the population of the parish.
Thérèse MASSOT gave again the life to him. On the request and the insistence of Marie-Carmen Milares, a artist-friend of
the village, Thérèse Massot was contacted. She agreed to make it reappear her hands while taking as a starting point
documents of time, so that she finds the place which she should never have left.
Ceremony, blessing and installation of the statue.
Saturday September 4, 2004, a ceremony thus took place in Clue of Insane In the presence of many parishioners,
Bernard Foulquier, mayor of Saint-Paul in his short speech, first of all thanked the artist and the persons in charge for the
blessing for this work. Two guards. After the blessing of this statue by the Domenica abbot and the installation in his niche,
the mayor invited the people present at glass of the friendship, after having pointed out that Saint-Paul-of-Fenouillet was
now protected in north by Saint-Anthony de Galamus and the south by Sainte-Germaine.
