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 Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas in Paris

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Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas in Paris

    Rue de l'Abbé-de-l'Épée
    75005 Paris
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Photo de Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas in Paris

Timeline

Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1200
1300
1400
1500
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
1180
Foundation of the Commandery
1360
Blessing of the chapel
1584
Construction of the first church
1630
Reconstruction and inversion of the choir
1633
Erection in Parish
1793
Revolutionary Pillage
1801
Retrocession to Catholics
1957
Registration for Historic Monuments
2017
Final classification
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Key figures

Catherine de Médicis - Queen of France Installed the Benedictines in 1572.
Gaston d’Orléans - Prince, brother of Louis XIII Finances reconstruction in 1630.
Angélique Arnauld - Abbesse de Port-Royal Lie the church to Jansenism in the 17th century.
Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé (duchesse de Longueville) - Port Royal Protector Finances the chapel of the Virgin.
Libéral Bruant - Architect Designs the chapel of the Virgin (1688-1690).
Abbé Franz Stock - Resistant priest Burial in 1948 with the future John XXIII.

Origin and history

The church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas came into being in 1180, with a commandery founded by Italian hospital brothers of the order of Saint-Jacques d'Altopascio. This place, dedicated to welcoming pilgrims to Compostela, grew with donations and was blessed in 1360 by the bishop of Paris. Its name "Haut-Pas" recalls the bridge built by these religious in Italy to cross a swamp on the Arno. After the abolition of their order in 1459, some brothers remained in a rural area.

In 1572, Catherine de Medici installed the Benedictines expelled from the Abbey of Saint-Magloire, transferring the relics of this Breton saint. In 1584, a first church was built to respond to the influx of faithful, then enlarged in 1630 under Gaston d'Orléans, with a reversal of its orientation. The work, slowed down by the lack of funds, benefited from donations in kind from local artisans. The church became parish in 1633, dedicated to Saint James the Minor and Saint Philip.

In the 17th century, the church was linked to Jansenism via Port Royal. Angélique Arnauld, a Jansenist abbess, and the Duchess of Longueville financed facilities, including the chapel of the Virgin (1688-1690) designed by Liberal Bruant. During the Revolution, the church was looted in 1793 but remained open to Catholic worship, shared briefly with the theophilantropes. It was used exclusively in 1801 under the Concordat.

The 19th and 20th centuries saw the enrichment of its decoration: paintings (including a work by Nélie Jacquemart in 1867), stained glass windows, and organs inherited from the church of Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné. The church also houses the tombs of scholars like Cassini and La Hire. In 1948, the funeral of Father Franz Stock, figure of spiritual resistance, took place in the presence of the future Pope John XXIII.

Ranked a historic monument since 2017 (after an inscription in 1957), the church is distinguished by its choir oriented to the west, its artistic heritage (tables of the brothers Le Nain, Bourdon) and its role in Parisian religious history, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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