The chapel of Saint-Jacques le Majeur in Pracompuet

It was built in 1684, and was first dedicated to Saint-Guérin, protector of horned animals, and Saint-Antoine of Padua, the greatest preacher of the Middle Ages. The chapel has a beautiful chancel in turned pine wood, a simple altarpiece with a painting in the centre of which presides an astonishing black virgin and child, undoubtedly that of the sanctuary of Oropa in Piedmont, where the inhabitants of Peisey-Nancroix worked as drapers. On the painting we also see Saint-James the Greater (Saint-Jacques le majeur) with a shell on his shoulder, a pilgrim whose grave was in Compostela.