Vaucouleurs: The Castle's Chapel

[copyrighted VLF]


2) The south and east facing exterior walls of the castle's chapel. [1905]


3) The North and west facing exterior walls of the castle's chapel [1905]


4) South facing exterior wall of the castle's chapel. [1910] 


5) The east facing exterior wall of the castle's chapel. The darker, lower stones are the original wall to the crypt chapel in which Joan prayed daily. [TF 1984]


6) Interior of the crypt chapel. Joan would kneel by the (foreground) pillar to pray. [photo from Vaucouleurs' town museum.]


7) The actual statue of Our Lady of the Vaults which Joan venerated. [VF 1997]


8) Copy of the statue of Our Lady of the Vaults - as it would have looked in Joan's time. The original Christ child was stolen by the Germans during the 'Thirty Years War (1618-1648).' [1905]


9) This is the actual crucifix venerated by Joan from the church of Saint Nicholas-de-Sept. This church is in the small village by the same name some 5 miles north of Vaucouleurs. [TF 1984]


10) Detail of Christ's face. [TF 1984] 


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