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Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine

Historic site and monument ,  Church in Hagetmau
  • The very remote and dilapidated abbey church of St. Girons required the construction of a church in the heart of the village of Hagetmau.
    In 1884, Bishop Delannoy, Bishop of Aire et Dax, laid the foundation stone of the new church, which was inaugurated in 1886. In 1904, the church of Saint-Girons, of which only the crypt now remains, was destroyed.
    The stained glass windows, 1886, are by G-P Dagrand, a glass painter in Bordeaux. Those of the transept have an interesting iconography: Saint...
    The very remote and dilapidated abbey church of St. Girons required the construction of a church in the heart of the village of Hagetmau.
    In 1884, Bishop Delannoy, Bishop of Aire et Dax, laid the foundation stone of the new church, which was inaugurated in 1886. In 1904, the church of Saint-Girons, of which only the crypt now remains, was destroyed.
    The stained glass windows, 1886, are by G-P Dagrand, a glass painter in Bordeaux. Those of the transept have an interesting iconography: Saint Girons the eponymous saint in the south and Saint Roch, in the north who, following a vow of the hagetmautians, saved them from the plague in 1654
    At the back of the south chapel of the choir is a splendid painting of Mary Magdalene in the desert by Louis-Anselme Longa, 1840
    On the north and south sides of the apse are two murals of Mary Magdalene on canvas marouflaged to imitate the fresco, by the