Calvary

A visit to the Calvaire d'Huberdeau, designated as a heritage site since 1997, is well worth the trip. It can be accessed from Principale Street by taking Pont Street, then right onto Bellevue Street, and finally left onto Calvaire Street. A breathtaking landscape awaits you there.

The site is still visited by pilgrims today. An annual outdoor mass is also celebrated each year on the first Sunday of August, along with a community meal.

We can see five stations of the Passion of Christ, a cross and a grotto of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes. The Stations of the Cross are formed by 27 statues in bronzed cast iron created between 1910 and 1920 by Union Artistique Internationale de Vaucouleurs, in France.

The priest Montfortain Pierre Cesbron built a Calvary in wood here in 1892. The structure was erected by the hard work of parishioners, who did it as a duty without pay. The Calvary was replaced by a new structure between 1910 and 1920, formed of the statues still on view. 

The Stations of the Cross is made up of only five last stations. The reason: the transportation from France having taken place during WWI, when some of the ships involved were sunk!