Saint Gausbert of Cahors

Saint Gausbert was intimately linked with Saint Geral saint Gérard Count of Auvergne and close friend of Gausbert. d, Count o f Aurill Aurillac City of origin of Saint Gerald. ac, in Auvergne. The latter having made known to our Saint and to other distinguished persons the disgust he had conceived for the world, and the design he had formed to take the religious habit, to make the journey to Rome , an Rome Birthplace of Maximian. d to bequeath his goods to Saint Peter Saint-Pierre The Holy See or the Vatican Basilica to which Gérard wished to bequeath his property. by way of a testament, Saint Gausbert, viewing things from a higher perspective, dissuaded him from living as a religious under the secular habit, for the salvation of his compatriots, whom his examples would edify, while still allowing him to give his goods to Saint Peter if he so wished.

Father of the poor, he fed them with the revenues of his church, contenting himself with a very simple way of life. His cult is very ancient in the cathedra l church of Cahors, where t église cathédrale de Cahors Episcopal see of the saint. here is a chapel dedicated under his name.

The chapel of Le Reclus, in the diocese of Saint-Flour (canton of Montsalvy), is a place of pilgrimage where the faithful often come to pray to the Blessed Virgin as the refuge of sinners; here is its origin: a religious man had been condemned to death for the crime of sorcery. Brought back to repentance and Christ ian sentiments saint Gausbert Bishop of Cahors in the 10th century, known for his charity and spiritual counsel. by Saint Gausbert, he had been led to the place of execution, accompanied by Saint Gausbert himself, who had unsuccessfully asked for his pardon with prayers and tears; the executioner having fled without anyone being found to replace him, the multitude gathered to witness the punishment, moved at the sight of the condemned man, touched by his repentance, and carried away by the devotion of Gausbert, had asked for mercy with a unanimous voice. This pardon was only granted on the condition that he would do penance for the rest of his life in a secluded place.

Gausbert, accepting the condition, had taken him to Montsalv Montsalvy Monastery and hospice founded by Saint Gausbert. y, and had a cell built for him near the town, where the poor religious spent his whole life in the austerities of penance, which he crowned with a death precious before God. On the site of his cell, a chapel was built which was called the Chapel of the Recluse, and first bore the dedication of Saint Mary Magdale ne, model of penitents sainte Marie-Madeleine Primary dedication of the chapel of Le Reclus. ; then the dedication of the Immaculate Conception. The Congregations of Mary have, for this reason, adopted it as their chapel, and people often come to pray within its walls.

Local notes; Notre-Dame de France, by the parish priest of Saint-Sulpice.