. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . ^ .X. THE CRYPT AT HAGETMAU 91 St. Girons. At that place they say that the skull andsome bones were brought thither in the fifth centuryby the companions of the saint, and at S. EulaUe,Bordeaux, were portions said to have been broughtthither by Charlemagne. The dispute is of littleimportance, as all the relics vanished at the Revolu-tion. The abbey at Hagetmau was served by regularAugustinian Canons at first, but was secularized inthe fourteenth century, and destroyed by the Hugue-nots in 1569. In 18
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . ^ .X. THE CRYPT AT HAGETMAU 91 St. Girons. At that place they say that the skull andsome bones were brought thither in the fifth centuryby the companions of the saint, and at S. EulaUe,Bordeaux, were portions said to have been broughtthither by Charlemagne. The dispute is of littleimportance, as all the relics vanished at the Revolu-tion. The abbey at Hagetmau was served by regularAugustinian Canons at first, but was secularized inthe fourteenth century, and destroyed by the Hugue-nots in 1569. In 1888 the crypt was made known tothe French Archaeological Congress, which met at Daxin that year, and as a consequence, was declared anliistorical monument. Since that time the churchhas been cleared away, the fourteenth-century ribbedand bossed vaulting removed and replaced by a modemimitation of eleventh - century work, and a chapelbuilt above it, apparently to serve a fine new hospitalwhich has been erected close by. The eleventh-centurychurch was destroyed in some way, and on its remainsanothe
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