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Saint-Fiacre church, or Saint-Vincent-et-Saint-Fiacre is a neogothic style church, built in the 19th century in Nancy, and dedicated to Fiacre.
Location
[edit]Saint-Fiacre church is situated in the rue de Metz, north of the cours Léopold.
History
[edit]The founding vicar of this church is Joseph Simonin, born on 10th August 1798, in Drouville[1]. He was the abbot Michel’s[2] nephew. Joseph Simonin was the vicar of the trois-maisons parish, from 1831 to 1858. He funded the construction of Saint-Fiacre for a third party. Simonin died in 1858, and was buried at the entrance of the choir[3].
Saint-Fiacre church was designed by the architect Prosper Morey and inaugurated in 1855. It supersedes the old church in the Trois-Maisons faubourg and the church inBoudonville, built in 1721.
Organs
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These organs were rebuilt by Haerpfer-Erman between 1974 and 1976 with new cases. They still retain the majority of the original pipes, from1856, designed by Jean Frédéric II Verschneider (1810-1884).
Architecture
[edit]The construction, in a sulpician style, which was devised by Prosper Morey, is composed of 4 altars, the choir and the pulpit are listed.
References
[edit]- ^ Sylvie Straehli. "Dictionnaire biographique des prêtres du diocèse de Nancy et de Toul" (pdf). Retrieved 26 septembre 2022.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help); line feed character in|title=at position 38 (help) - ^ "Les martyrs de la terreur révolutionnaire". Retrieved 26 septembre 2022.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help) - ^ Badel, Émile (1861-1936) Auteur du texte (1924). La cathédrale-primatiale de Nancy / Emile Badel (in French). p. 115. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
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[[Category:Churches in Meurthe-et-Moselle]]