Saint-Sulpice-of-Favières

Saint-Sulpice-with-Favières is a common French, located in the department of the the Essonne and the area Île-de-France. Its inhabitants is called Saint-Sulpiciens.

Geography

The commune of Saint-Sulpice of Favières is in the valley of the Renarde in the old province of the Hurepoix. It is located at the south of Paris, with 37km of the Ile of the City and 33km of the Ring road.

History

The old name of the village east Favières of the Former French faveriis who would come from the Latin fava (broad bean) and would mean fields of broad beans . The worship of Saint-Sulpice is practiced following a miracle: according to the legend, Sulpice the Piles would have in VIIe century ressuscity a drowned child. Two churches will be successively built in XIIe and XIIIe, probably replacing an older building, to accommodate an increasingly popular pilgrimage. A Hotel God , hospital of the Middle Ages, is also built opposite the church. There remains only the gate today about it.

The pilgrimage is maintained until the XXe century although the church is in bad condition. It is one of the first listed monuments in 1850.

The common one was crossed by the Tacot , railway line secondary which went from Arpajon to Étampes and which functioned of 1911 with 1948.

Remarkable monuments and places

The Saint-Sulpice church

Built essentially 1245 with 1315, it is one of the more good examples of the Gothic in Ile-de-France. It replaced a church of 1180. The church is dedicated to Sulpice the Piles which was chaplain of the king Clotaire II then bishop of Bourges in 624. He was the guard of the poor and of persecuted and died in 647.

The gate has a tympanum recalling the last Jugement which was damaged under the Revolution, the bell-tower has a roof as a bâtière. Inside, a cradle out of wooden recovers the first four spans of the Nef, which had collapsed; this cover is due to the generosity of the marquis Guillaume de Lamoignon. The remainder of the nave and the Abside have ribbed vaults. In the collateral right the stained glasses of the 13th century recall the life of the Vierge and the childhood of the Christ in thirty medallions. The stalls are 15th century; their balustrades are carved small picturesque characters. One goes down in the " vault of the Miracles " by crossing the door which gives on the left side. One can admire there a bust reliquary of Sulpice Saint, a statue of Sainte Beard out of polychrome wood of 15th, and a pilot puit of the old worship.

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