Saint-Blaise Oratory

Saint Blaise oratory

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The Saint-Blaise chapel was built on the old road leading from Châtel-sur-Montsalvens to Crésuz. It is said that at the end of the 17th century, the plague decimated the valley's livestock, sparing Crésuz. To thank the heavens for this, the governor of the commune, Blaise Ruffieux, had a chapel built dedicated to Saint Blaise, a 4th-century doctor and martyr renowned for his care of animals. Today, the chapel of Saint Blaise remains a simple oratory, a place of prayer where mass is no longer celebrated.

The vaulted entrance is topped by the eaves typical of 17th-century rural chapels in the Grasse region. Inside, the La Tour-de-Trême sculptor Carlo Grisonia created an oak triptych of the Virgin and Child surrounded by Saint Blaise and Saint Geneviève, donated by Claude Glasson of Bulle in 1945.

Oak triptych of the Virgin and Child surrounded by Saint Blaise and Saint Geneviève

In collaboration with the commune of Châtel-sur-Montsalvens