page_title: Castellane
section_title: Notre-Dame du Roc
hierarchical_section_title: Castellane / Notre-Dame du Roc
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Castellane, Chapelle Notre Dame du Roc intérieur
context_page_description: Castellane is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. With about 1,600 inhabitants, Castellane has the distinction of being the least-populated sub-prefecture of France.
  Its inhabitants are referred to as Castellanais.
context_section_description: The Chapel of Our Lady of the Rock, dating from the High Middle Ages, dominates the city from atop the Rock and belongs to the former Convent of Mercy. But only the wall and the south façade date from the twelfth century; the building was half demolished during the wars of religion and rebuilt in 1590.
  Crumbling by 1703, the chapel was again rebuilt in the early eighteenth century and once more in 1860. A capital adorned with foliage and scrolls dates from the Renaissance.
  The furnishings include:
  a statue of the Virgin, in marble, possibly 16th century
  two paintings, St. Charles Borromeo and St. Francis and St. Jeanne de Chantal, on the historic register for both the paintings and their gilded frames, bearing the arms of the Bishop of Senez Duchaîne and dating from the seventeenth century.
  It received numerous votive offerings in the 19th and 20th centuries, including:
  traditional engraved plates (136 total);
  bridal bouquets (21 total);
  a painting given after a vow to Our Lady, dating from 1757, and registered;
  a painting given after the cholera epidemic in 1835, registered;
  a painting given by a released prisoner, dated 1875 (registered);
  a painting given in thanks after a smallpox epidemic, dated 1870, registered;
  a painting given by a person who escaped a shipwreck in 1896, registered.
caption: Votive offerings
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