Saint-François-Xavier

Begun in 1861 and consecrated in 1894, the church has a classical nave and a façade in the manner of the Italian Renaissance; Charles Lameire painted the apostles in its dome in 1875. It holds Tintoretto’s Last Supper of 1559, some three centuries older than the church around it, and Luca Giordano’s Crucifixion of Saint Peter, with sculpture by Jean-Marie Bonnassieux and Alexandre Falguière. Since 2009 it has kept the shrine of Saint Madeleine-Sophie Barat, brought back from Belgium. The photograph follows the nave to the apse.