What a lot of mysteries surround Notre-Dame-la-Grande! From the origin of its name to the date of its construction... almost everything about this church, which is rumoured to have supernatural powers, remains unknown. One story begins in 1202, when Poitiers was besieged by the English. An employee of the town hall promised to deliver the keys of the city to the enemy for a large sum of money. But when, on Easter Eve, he entered the mayor's room, the keys had disappeared. They were found the next morning... in the hands of the statue of the Blessed Virgin. That same night, the Virgin Mary, Saint Hilary and Saint Radegonde appeared to the enemy soldiers and told them to flee. Today, the stained glass window to the north of the church recalls this miraculous episode and the divine intervention that saved the city.
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