Eglise Sainte-Pezenne de Niort

The oldest church of Niort built in place of a temple dedicated to Thor, rebuilt in the XI-XII’s, remodelled from the XV’s. to the XX’s. and inscribed in 2003.
At the time of Clovis, Pezenne fled to Aquitaine his native Spain where exactions reigned. She dies of exhaustion on a hillside of the Sèvre Niortaise. Miraculous healings around her tomb are at the origin of a frequented pilgrimage. In 1147, during the second crusade, Aliénor d'Aquitaine donated the remains to the count of Vermandois who took him to the north of France, to St-Quentin. The city was taken in 1557 by the army of Philip II of Spain. The emperor gave the relic to his sister, empress of Germany. When she died, she returned her to her country of origin. Her body was deposited in a chapel in the Royal Palace of the Escurial in Madrid. A phalange of the nun was offered to the parish of Pexine in 1955.