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                       St Amadour’s body was found   Pilgrims encounter the
                       in the cliff, near the Black   14 stations of the Cross
                       Virgin Chapel. A statue of the   on their way up the
                       much venerated Black Virgin   hillside to the château.
                       stands on the altar.

           Ramparts
                                              Cross of Jerusalem


















                                                       A busy
                                                       pedestrianized
                                                       street in popular
                                                       Rocamadour

                                                   The Basilica of
                                                   St-Sauveur, a late
                                                   12th-century sanctuary.

                                                 St Anne’s chapel contains
                                                 a 17th-century gilded
                                                 altar screen.


                                                 The Chapel of St John
                                                 the Baptist faces the
                                                 fine Gothic portal of the
                                                 Basilica of St-Sauveur.

                                                Chapel of St Blaise





                                               Illustration of
                                               Rocamadour’s Sanctuary
                                               and its chapels



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