Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Saint-Ay

Saint-Ay (aka "Saint Agylus") had built a chapel here. On his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he died on August 30th 593 and was buried in the chapel. That´s the legend, but it is proven, that a sanctuary existed here already in Merovingian times. The settlement near Orléans suffered just like the city. The Normans plundered the area in 855, the English burnt it down during the Hundred Years' War and Condé's Huguenot troops ravaged the village in 1562.