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Natural PlacesSite Name: Shrine of Rocamadour Alternative Name: Cave of St AmadourCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 0.139 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Perigueux Nearest Village: Cahors
Latitude: 44.799682N Longitude: 1.617066E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65)
Information for this cave, a site of pilgrimage since early medieval times, comes from The Journal of Antiquities - see their entry for The Shrine Of Rocamadour, Perigueux, Midi-Pyrenees, France, which gives directions for finding this cave and background information about St Amadour.
The Journal tells us that St Amadour is the name of a Biblical saint of the 1st century AD, otherwise known as Zacchaeus, who lived the life of a hermit at Rocamadour, bringing with him a famous carving of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and dying in about 70AD. The Journal adds: "the cave (today) contains his relics which were placed here by Benedictine monks in 1166, after they had found his body to be still incorrupt". The statue of the Black Madonna is housed inside The Chappelle Miraculeuse inside the Church of Notre Dame on the hillside above the cave.
More information about Rocadamour can be found at Rocamadour - the Shrine of the Black Madonna, which tells us this is the second most visited French site after Mont Saint-Michel.
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