Sainte-Rosalie

In 1859 the abbé Le Rebours, who had worked with Sister Rosalie Rendu, founded a mission and a chapel dedicated to Saint Rosalie of Palermo in what was then a poor district. After Haussmann’s works a new church was built on the boulevard Blanqui by Henri Marchand: neo-Gothic and never completed, it has fine capitals. The window over the choir, by Didron (1872), shows Sister Rosalie presenting her church to her patron saint. The photograph looks into the choir and that window.