OPEN TO THE PUBLIC rtefacts stored in the Treasury From 1 June to 30 September, every day, he Treasury of the Cathedral A including public holidays: T From 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm Besides the works belonging to the Town of and the diocesan associa- http://tresor-cathedrale-auch.jimdo.com/ of Saint Mary of Auch tion kept in the Treasury, thirteen works listed as Historic Monuments (HM) Tel.: +33 (0)5 62 05 95 03 belonging to towns in the are presented, to conserve and showcase them: OFF SEASON Guided tours for groups by a specialist “Pays d’Art et d’Histoire du Grand Auch” guide, bookings only. Pietà or Mater Dolorosa, end Processional cross, 16th c., of the 15th or beginning of the silvered copper on wooden INFORMATION AND BOOKING 16th c., sculpted polychrome core, unidentified silversmith. Greater Auch Tourist Information Office wood. From the former church From church in Pellefigue. 3, place de la République - 32000 Auch, in Saint Yors, Bazian. Property Property of the town. Listed Photo of the monumental stairway and the Armagnac Tower. © Jean-François Peiré - DRAC. of the town. Listed as an HM as an HM on 9 July 1976. Tel.: +33 (0)5 62 05 22 89 on 22 March 1972. http://en.auch-tourisme.com/ SAINT-JUSTIN Reliquary bust of Saint Justin, DISABLED ACCESS 1687-1689, Samson (?), sil- Accessible to those with visual, motor, mental CRASTES versmith in Toulouse, silver and hearing disabilities. The Flight into Egypt, sculp- on wooden core. From church 2 ted group, 16th or 17th c., in Saint-Justin. Property of the PRICES polychrome wood. From the town. Listed as an HM on 18 e church in Crastes. Property of May 1960. Admission fee : 5 (full rate) - e the town. Listed as an HM on Five goldsmithery works: 2.50 (reduced rate) - free for under–18s 25 January 1957. Ciborium, after 1838, Favier, Guided tour fees : 1 goldsmith in Lyon, listed as an ask at the treasury reception or at the tourist HM on 6 March 1970; information office. 3 LAAS Altar Cross, 1777, unidentified 2-visit pass : e8 (full rate) - Processional cross, 15th c., goldsmith, listed as an HM on e4 (half price) - free for under–18s silvered and gilded copper 18 May 1960; Cathedral Treasury – Musée des Jacobins or Action on wooden core. From the Processional cross with staff, Pays d’Art et d’Histoire church in Laas. Listed as an 1770, Louis I Dulaurier, golds- 3-visit pass : e10 (full rate) - HM on 6 March 1970. mith in Toulouse, listed as an e5 (half price) - free for under–18s Saint Mary’s Cathedral Treasury HM on 18 May 1960; 1 Cathedral Treasury – Musée des Jacobins or Action Place Salinis, Auch Chalice, 1777, B. Samson, Pays d’Art et d’Histoire goldsmith in Toulouse; 2 Musée des Jacobins Incense boat and spoon, 18th 4, place Louis-Blanc, Auch Virgin and child known as and 19th centuries, listed as an HELP WITH VISITS Loan of trilingual digital tablets, film on big 3 Monumental stairway Notre-Dame du Cédon, end HM on 18 May 1960. of the 18th c., wrought and screen, booklet in braille, mediation and museography for young visitors and engraved copper. From Notre- SAINTE-CHRISTIE (31). Toulouse Groupe Reprint Printers Toulouse. Design Christelle Bouvet / Hakadesign. Graphic : Lionel Monferran disabled visitors, downloadable tour app, TREASURE Dame du Cédon chapel, Pavie. Two reliquary busts of Saint of cathedral Property of the town. Listed as Christina of Tuscany, ca 1630, multimedia terminals. an HM on 1 July 1905. polychrome and gilded wood. From the church in Sainte-Chris- tie. Property of the town. Listed Project Manager: Ministry of Culture, DRAC . as an HM on 25 February 1959. Project Management: Stéphane Thouin, Architect-in-Chief of Historic Monuments and Nicolas Calandre, Architect, Agen. Didier Blin, Architect and Museographer, Paris. Pour tout renseignement sur les horaires d’ouverture de ces églises, merci de vous adresser aux mairies. Graphic Design: Christelle Bouvet, www.lezarius.fr, Toulouse.

Flyer produced by Drac Occitanie, 2017 Map - Drac. Peiré © Photos Jean-François Façade of the Officiality (ecclesiastical tribunal), 1844. View of the entrance gate. View of the north hall. © Jean-François Peiré - DRAC. Portrait of a canon, Monstrance, J.-A. Chertier, Chasuble embroidered Jesus healing the sick, oil on canvas, View of the former capitulary hall (video room). th th © Gers Departmental Archives. © Jean-François Peiré - DRAC. oil on canvas, 17 c. Parisian goldsmith, 19th c. by an Ursuline nun (detail), after Jean Jouvenet, 18 century. © Jean-François Peiré - DRAC. © Jean-François Peiré - DRAC. © Jean-François Peiré - DRAC. © Jean-François Peiré - DRAC. Auch, ca 1880. © C. Aribaut A new treasury in historic rooms Exploring the collections In the literal sense, a treasury refers to Regional Directorate of Cultural Day-to-day management of the treasury The treasury of Auch Cathedral brings conservation standards for the fabrics. Some very rare goldsmiths’ pieces a series of valuable objects collected Affairs (DRAC) of Occitanie (Ministry is entrusted to the Greater Auch local together a number of works dating Over and above the large orders with from the 18th century come from the over time and which have been hidden of Culture) decided, in 2009-2010, authority services and the tourist infor- largely from the 15th to the 19th centu- chasuble makers in Paris and manufac- workshops of the master goldsmiths of or lost. The term is also employed to to reorganise the former treasury in mation office, which is responsible for ries. Items from the Middle Ages which turers in Lyon in the 19th century, the Auch (the Affre dynasty), Toulouse (the refer to a place in a religious building new premises. Project mana­gement keeping the treasury open during the featured in the original treasury were works embroidered by the Ursulines Samson dynasty) and Bordeaux. in which old and precious objects, and funding was provided by the high season. The rest of the year, tours lost at the time of the French Revolu- of Auch stand head and shoulders The production of the 19th century is works of art, archives and liturgical French State. To accommodate the are provided by the services of the “Pays tion. The objects have been grouped above trade production and show the due to local goldsmiths (from Toulouse objects are gathered. The treasury new treasury, the lower rooms of the d’Art et d’Histoire du Grand Auch”. into ten themes covering history and art inventiveness and artistic quality of this and Tarbes). The clergy also called upon was once accessible only to certain former canons’ building (or chapter), history: the great Archbishops of Auch religious community based in Auch. renowned Paris and Lyon firms, the members of the clergy (canons). the vestiges of the earliest cathedral An interpretation centre Auch (evoked by their portraits), the history Faviers and the Poussielgue-­Rusands, Despite heavy losses due to looting, and the lower section of the Armagnac Cathedral and role of the canons, the regional A treasure trove of goldsmiths’ work as well as Jean-Alexandre Chertier transformation into coins, and fires, Tower were refurbished. The treasury The interpretation centre is open to visi­ goldsmith trade and Marian devotion The many works by goldsmiths provide of Paris. forty or so churches still have treasuries was reorganised and installed in these tors in an exceptionally high-quality and the worship of saints. a good illustration of the liturgical reflecting the extraordinary quality of rooms, which had previously remained modern museum setting and incorpo- equipment acquired by parishes in the region’s collections of sacred art, closed to the general public. The 300 rating access facilities for all visitors An exceptional collection the 18th and 19th centuries. Some are including the churches of Sainte-Foy in m² exhibition area was inaugurated (videos, interactive terminals, tablets, The treasury’s liturgical ornaments quite exceptional, such as the silver-­ Conques (Aveyron) and Saint-Sernin in in September 2015, featuring nearly documents in braille, etc.). It presents trace the history of the cathedral, its covered reliquary bust of Saint Justin. Toulouse, which are among the most 200 objects and works of art, paint- the cathedral and its sumptuous bishops and the fashions of the Ancien Intended for practice, the adornment of precious in France. ings, sculptures, gold and silver-plated 16th-century decor (stalls, sculptures, Régime, since the same fabrics were Catholic worship and the veneration of For the most part, the objects that have objects and sacerdotal vestments, all stained-glass windows) as well as the used for clothing, furnishings and the relics, numerous religious objects are come to us have the particularity of still inventoried and restored, and most of history of the medieval rooms, a fitting liturgy. They bear simultaneous witness the work of local and national artists being used in worship. which are listed as historic monuments. showcase for the treasury. It thus helps to to fashions and the decorative arts. and craftsmen, particularly goldsmiths. The work of the people involved in enrich the history of the Gascon capital, The treasury boasts 200 sets of orna- The highly regulated goldsmiths’ trade An accessible treasury the restoration (restorers, architects, opening its little-known collections to ments (kept in storage), two or three of and its techniques are relatively well As part of the policy to restore State- museographers) is presented in short the public and enhancing visits to the which will be presented in rotation in a understood thanks to the hallmarks owned cathedral treasuries, the films in the rooms. Cathedral and the Musée des Jacobins. display cabinet, owing to the very strict identifying the objects.