 Why speak of this situated church to entered it of Limoux? To bring it closer of the Rennes-Le-Chateau history, we must be interested again in this other priest whom fails to astonish us by his work to key, we name, Henri Boudet.
He dedicates a whole chapter in this church in his/her/its book" The true Language Celtic and the cromlech of Rennes-Les-Bains! ".
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In a first reading, his description doesn't have anything particular, but as there paying attention more, it is possible to feel, more that among to be certain, a sense hidden to the sentences that take place under our reader's eyes.
Before enriching this short survey, we must be interested in this church under a more general aspect.
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The place says "Marceille" seems to go back to very old times. We recover its trace in his/her/its adherence to the religious of the abbey of Lagrasse. To this time the place was an alleu (To the time feudal, an alleu is a free earth for which the owner doesn't owe any royalties and don't be a matter for any Lord) This concession to the religious of Lagrasse is made by Charlemagne. His successors will confirm this state.
There are no more relative documents to the elevation of the church of Notre Dame of Marceille. However, after several crosschecks, an author that we know well in the history of Rennes-Le-Chateau, Louis Fédié, situate the elevation of this church in the first third of the XV ème Century. |
Only a legend tells us why this church was built in this place :
A plowman worked his/her/its field situated in this former alleu. All of a sudden, the b.ufs pulling the plowshare refused to advance. Surprised and irritated, the plowman noted that its animals seemed to fear to go further. Astonished, he watched before them. Without knowing why, he/it decided to dig the just soil before his/her/its animals. What was not his surprise when, emerging earth, he discovered a statue of the Virgin sculpted in a dark wood, nearly black. Very devout, he carried the statue in his humble home, thinking to see in this discovery the action of God's grace himself.
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To the morning, he was hit of stupefaction! The statue had disappeared. He returned his discovery at the scene and discovered that the statue had come back" where it had found it. Seeing there a divine action, he informed the clergy of it, that certain some miracle decided to raise a church in this blessed place of God and the Virgin. This is how Notre Dame of Marceille was founded.
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For some, it seems that it has been built on a former well Celtic. Mythomania? Esoteric dream? Us in reparlerons farther!
This church is astonishing, on the one hand by its measurements - it doesn't have anything to see with a small church of country - and on the other hand, by the cult that is reserved to him. Then, one discovers that it enjoys an astonishing popularity! It is not in the first place quoted by Fulcaneli in his work" The homes philosophales?"
Delteil, in his " Saint Don Juan" presents us a Don Juan dedicated to Marie dice his birth. This same Don Juan is attracted in a mysterious manner by the church ofNotre Dame of Marceille. It is in this same church that Don Juan will get married.
And then, we must come back there, Henri Boudet presents it to us with precision and allegory! |
Il nous apprend que le sanctuaire est gardé par les enfants de Saint-Vincent de Paul. Ce même Saint-Vincent de Paul, qui vivra une expérience étonnante d'enlèvement. Enlèvement réel ou allégorie d'une initiation à un mystère particulier. Quoi qu'il en soit, nous trouvons la statue du saint au fond des jardins de l'église de Notre dame de Marceille.
Henri Boudet speaks to us with precision of the rail driving to the sanctuary and that "names itself sacred way ". Nearly in top, be a fountain dropping, drop to drop, a limpid water in a basin of marble. A description of actuality, since nothing changed between the moment where Henri Boudet went at the scene and now. Our author makes us notice that even by big rain or big drought, the debit remained constant. This fountain serves to the pilgrims who rub their lids with this water to take care of the pains of their eyes.
He signals us that The old columnists knew this place under the name of " Fountain of Marsilla ".
For Boudet, the out-flow, drop to drop, some fountain had made the surrounding land, a swampy land in the time of the Celtic. This land, does he baptize it haum-moor (dead Man?) Doesn't this geographical insinuation want to make us think at the former well Celt on which, would the church have been built?
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Henri Boudet gives us an explanation on the origin of the Virgin's statue being inside the church. For him, the fountain of Marceille have been decorated of the virgin's statue in the time of the first christianization. Her to been lost and would have been the one recovered, later, that would have become the one that one can see again today in the church Our-packs down Marceille. An attempt rational of the explanation of the plowman's legend.
On the other hand, a detail is to note in the book of Boudet: The author of" The true Celtic language. "insists on the fact that this statue has been sculpted in a black wood (he writes it in italic), to indicate its oriental source.
For Boudet, the term of Marsilla comes of the sense: "Notre Dame of Marcilla, spoiled eyes, damaged and closed by the illness" He leans on one of his famous constructions: To mar, to spoil, to damage - To seel, to Close the eyes making marseel therefore, either marceille with the erosion of the pronunciation.
We can say therefore that Boudet insists on several points :
The constancy of the debit of the water of the fountain.
The land of the "haum-moor"
The color of the Virgin's sculpture (crotchet) and therefore its origin
On the fact that thanks to the water of the fountain one recovers the view.
We recover several themes bound to esoterism
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The dead man (haum-moor) can make us think about the notion of cadaver and decomposition. This track opens us several ways, either the one of the symbolic death by the setting in earth before the rebirth of the future insider or the alchemical putrefaction notion, obligated passage to the realization of the big .uvre according to the insiders to the alchemy. Is Fulcaneli so far from Boudet? |
Then we recover the statue of wood crotchet, the one of the virgin. its black color, doesn't she/it make us think about l' .uvre to the black, so dear, again to the alchemists? Or, must not this color recall it us that this virgin is oriental? As some depict Marie-Madeleine? |
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Besides, the miracle of the fountain of Marceille,it is not to return the view to those that one lost, or in a more allegorical way, it is not there to bring us light on this that one hides to the common of the mortals? |
The Alchemical aspect of Notre Dameof Marceille is, for some, incontestable. The different medallions that one finds to the walls of the building make, indeed, to think about alchemical allegories. But this place, place of cult of a Black Virgin, him is determining on Marie-Madeleine's understanding? Bound the term "Marceille" to Marie-Madeleine cannot be rejected straight off.
Something else of astonishing attracts l' .il of the enthusiast of the Rennes-Le-Chateau history in this curious church: It is about a picture representing Saint-Antoine's temptation. A Saint-Antoine that one recovers several times in this mysterious history. |
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Another detail of this place: The Virgin's statue in the gardens. It is represented up, crowned and stingy soil. Of her feet, it crushes a green snake. Some we will say that it crushes the demon of the garden of Eden, but don't must us to see an allegory in the Vouivre, this snake of the earth, symbol of the underground energies, there?
Let's come back to the well Celt! For many, the history of this well is a legend. Yet, an author wrote, some time ago". bus of the underground amenities, there is some under Notre Dame of Marceille.
Indeed, this same author organized a visit of the rooms soutérainnes of Notre Dame of Marceille in May 2003.
The visitors can discover these rooms that good number of historians said innéxistantes.
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Do we have there, the setting in evidence of the famous well Celt as well as do coins have it heard abbot Henri Boudet?
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