Coq - Chapelle des Marins - Rooster - Sailors' Chapel - L'Islet, Québec - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

« L’estime que les Anciens faisaient du coq pour sa vigilance, son courage, son ardeur, les inclinait à voir en lui un oiseau protecteur. À tous les mérites de l’oiseau s’ajoutaient le rôle joué dans le reniement de Saint Pierre et la coïncidence entre le chant matinal du coq et l’he...ure matinale de la Résurrection; …ce chant devenait peu à peu inséparable de l’idée de vigilance et de prière.

Sur les lampes, fresques, sarcophages, partout, le coq faisait son chemin, jusqu’au jour où, d’un coup d’aile, il se percha sur un premier clocher. Où et quand? C’est au IXe siècle que nous l’y rencontrons.

En 820, l’évêque fit fondre un coq de bronze et le plaça au faîte du clocher de son église. Depuis, la coutume s’est répandue un peu partout, même au Canada, car qui, parmi nous, n’a pas vu un coq girouetter sur le sommet d’un clocher d’église? » (Extrait de On veut savoir de Léon Trépanier).

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The esteem that the Ancients made of the roosterfor his vigilance, his courage, his ardor inclined them to see him as a protective bird. To all the merits of the bird were added the part played in the denial of St. Peter and the coincidence between the morning song of the rooster and the morning of the Resurrection; ... this song gradually became inseparable from the idea of vigilance and prayer.

On the lamps, frescoes, sarcophagi, everywhere, the rooster made his way, until the day when, with a stroke of the wing, he perched on a first steeple. Where and when? It is in the ninth century that we meet him there.

In 820, a bishop melted a bronze rooster and placed it on the top of the church tower. Since then, the custom has spread everywhere, even in Canada, because who among us has not seen a rooster flutter on the top of a church steeple? (Excerpt from We Want to Know Leon Trépanier).

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