Closure 1994 (≈ 1994)
Transfer to the University of Avignon.
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui Aujourd'hui (≈ 2025)
Position de référence.
Heritage classified
Facade and chapel: inscription by decree of 22 February 1927; Vestibule and large staircase; the garden including balustrade and plantations: inscription by order of 23 May 1951; Total hospital with the exception of contemporary parts and buildings south of the balustrade (Case DN 875): registration by order of 13 September 1988
Key figures
Bernard Rascas - Founder
Lawyer at the origin of the hospital in 1353.
Trinitaires - Religious Order
Initial facility managers.
Origin and history
The Sainte-Marthe hospital in Avignon was founded in 1353 by the lawyer Bernard Rascas and then entrusted to the Trinitarians. From the 15th century, it became the main hospital of the city, managed directly by Avignon from the 16th century. The growing needs under the Ancien Régime led to two major reconstructions in the 17th and 18th centuries to accommodate an ever greater number of patients.
In 1796, the hospital absorbed the Saint-Bénézet hospital, originally dedicated to poor travellers and then to the syphilitic patients. In the 19th century, it temporarily welcomed residents of general alms before their transfer. In 1982, the establishment of the Avignon hospital centre marked its decline: it closed definitively in 1994 and its buildings were transferred to the university.
The former hospital was listed for historical monuments in three stages (1927, 1951, 1988), preserving its chapel transformed into a pharmacy in 1756, its monumental staircase and its garden. Today integrated into the university heritage, the Sainte-Marthe site bears witness to six centuries of Avignonese medical and social history.
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