Rennes-le-Château
Hilltop village church with a custom-made devil holding the holy water and lavish painted statues.
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This guide to the Church of Mary Magdalene in Rennes-le-Château, near Carcassonne, is about one object and the two men behind it: the village priest Bérenger Saunière and Bernard Giscard, whose Toulouse workshop sold painted terracotta saints by catalogue. It follows the bills and receipts of eighteen ninety-six and ninety-seven, and a figure that does not appear where you would expect it. Stand just inside the door, by the holy water.
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