![]() ![]() His house is ablaze with lights and drumming and singing. But here at the home of 72-year-old Eloy Hernandez, the day has just begun. The clock strikes 12, and the brick row houses along this quiet Columbia Heights street go dark in the bitterly cold December night. They have asked Saint Lazarus to grant one wish: "That next year, we have the health to light another candle." This is a simple but important moment, the high priest says. ![]() Later, they will sweep it over their bodies to draw out any bad spirits. They take a small burlap bag of grains and seeds. One by one, crowded shoulder-to-shoulder, the devotees light the 51 yellow candles on the altar to celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Lazarus, or Babalu-Aye. Then an "Our Father" and a "Hail Mary," all in Spanish. First to San Lazaro, or Saint Lazarus, considered a healer of physical and spiritual pain. įrom the left heading towards the chapel of Saint Lazare, we find the following paintings in succession: The Baptism of the Eunuch of the Queen of Candace by Mariotti, Jesus at Simon the Pharisee by Cantérini, The Holy Family by Dominique Antoine Magaud, The Donation of the Keys by Auguste Nancy, Jesus in the House of Bethany by Gagliardi, The Healing of the Young Man Possessed by the Devil by Pierre Bronzet Elder, Saint Michael by Gagliardi and The Saints of Marseilles by Bronzet Elder.Minutes before midnight and the prayers begin. The choir is decorated with three paintings by Jean-Joseph Dassy representing three episodes in the life of Saint Lazarus: the resurrection, the apostolate and his martyrdom.įrom the entrance towards the chapel of the Virgin, we find successively the following paintings: The Adulteress by Cantérini, The Samaritan woman by Julien Gustave Gagliardini, The Apparition of the Lord to the blessed Marguerite Marie by the abbot Cartier, The Healing of the Paralytic by Auguste Nancy, The Deliverance of Souls from Purgatory by Gagliardi, The Return of the Prodigal Son by Pierre Bronzet aîné, The Death of Saint Joseph by Auguste Nancy and The Coronation of the Virgin by Jean-Joseph Dassy. Julien Gustave Gagliardini, The Samaritan. The gallery of paintings placed along the side naves characterizes this church. The ceiling is decorated with caissons in honor during the Renaissance, a period whose influence is felt in all the civil or religious buildings built by Pascal Coste. ![]() The church is 45 m long by 23 m wide and consists of three naves separated by a colonnade of Ionic order. The church was built from 453 to 833 according to the plans of the architects Pascal Coste and Barral. He then decided on December 9, 1841, on the report of Mr Marius Massot, to proceed with the acquisition of the church for the price of 168 francs: it was rather a good deal because the total amount of the expenses was amounted to 000 francs and had required a loan for which Bishop Mazenod had personally guaranteed. This construction will subsequently be regularized thanks to the new religious policy of the king the Municipal Council in its meeting of Februrecognizes of public utility the erection of the Saint-Lazare church. The construction which begins in 1833 will be declared illegal by the municipal councilor Mr Fortoul in his report of Decemto the Municipal Council. Indeed at that time no religious building could be built without the prior favorable opinion of the Municipal Council which had not been seized. Bishop de Mazenod, being still only bishop of Icosia, decided to build this church as well as that of Saint-Joseph in defiance of the laws. The asylum will be transferred in 1844 to the former Timone Hospital. In 1699 this establishment, located approximately at the corner of rue Camille-Pelletan and rue Desaix, was bought by the city to treat the mentally ill or “insane”. This leper was held by the Knights of Saint-Lazare or Lazaristes whose mission was to take care of the lepers who were gathered in ladreries so that the evil did not spread because the care to be given to the sick was unknown at the time. The name of Saint-Lazare was given to the suburb where this church is built because a leper colony mentioned as early as the XNUMXth century was established there. ![]()
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