Chapelle de Sainte-Gertrude
Located in Montagny, a quarter of a league from the village of Selongey, at the foot of St Gertrude’s Chapel, a picnic area offers a view overlooki...
Built in 1530, it was erected on the site of an older chapel or an earlier pagan structure, following a vow made by a cloth merchant from Nivelle. It is situated in Montagny, a quarter of a league from the village of Selongey. It was consecrated by Cardinal de Givry, Bishop of Langres.
It comprises two colonnaded porticoes and an altar to the dead at the east entrance.
It houses a statue of Saint Gertrude, recognisable by the mice climbing up her cloak, and an altar dedicated to Saint Reine. Saint Gertrude of Nivelle, an abbess, was born in 626 and died in 659 at the age of 33. She was known as a mother to orphans and a source of comfort to captives and strangers. She is invoked for the protection of travellers, but also against the damage caused by field mice and rats. The daughter of Pepin of Landen, Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingians, she was a descendant of Charles Martel, Pepin the Short and Charlemagne.