Not only the church of Valencogne is worth seeing, but the whole place. There are many coastal works on Via Gebennensis, the Camino de Santiago from Geneva to le Puy-en-Velay, which leads through the village and past the church. Almost 1000 years ago, pilgrims moved from here to Santiago de Compostela. There is much evidence of this ancient tradition in the church.

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Matto

April 18, 2025

The abbey basilica was rebuilt starting around 1490 and completed in 1510 by Bernardino Zaccagni.

The famous artist Correggio left his mark on this church. He created five frescoes there, including the lunette with Saint John and the Eagle (1520), which is considered the first to be created.

The frescoes, the dome depicting the Ascension of Christ, the decoration of the drum and pendants, and the frieze of images that extends around the entire interior perimeter are all artistic treasures worth discovering.

The Way of St. James is very well documented in several places in the church.

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JakobusPilger

August 9, 2024

The first name John has been widespread since biblical times, and so it should not surprise us to find a whole series of blessed and saints with this name over the two millennia of Christianity. At the threshold from the Old to the New Testament we encounter John the Baptist (also John Baptist), to whom most of the John churches are dedicated. But one of the four men who wrote the New Testament gospels also bears this name. This church in ___ is dedicated to him, JOHN EVANGELIST. A long church tradition has regarded the evangelist as identical with the apostle John mentioned in the Bible, but this is doubted in biblical scholarship.

"The Gospel of John exerts a peculiar fascination. It is difficult to escape its solemn, sometimes mystical language. It addresses deep human needs and longings: hunger and thirst, the search for fulfilling eternal life, the longing for personal communion with God.” (Franz-Josef Ortkemper)

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