Eglise Sainte-Trinité (Saint-Aubert)
Type : Fiche Planimétrique N° 37B07T1
Ancienne commune: MONT-SAINT-AUBERT
Commune: TOURNAI
Toponyme:
Demi-planchette: 37/2S
Point: Eglise "Saint-Aubert"
Mont Saint Aubert
Mont-Saint-Aubert (in Walloon Mont-dlé-Tournai) is a village in Belgium located in the Walloon region, north-west of the province of Hainaut, four kilometers north of the city of Tournai. It is administratively part of this city since the merger of the municipalities of 1977, being in the district of Kain; it used to be a town in its own right. According to the last census established in 2005, the village has 608 inhabitants spread over an area of ??884 hectares. The mountain which gives its name to the town rises to 149 meters.
History
During the Gallo-Roman era, Mont Saint-Aubert, then called Mont Minerve, was a place of worship; the druids gathered mistletoe there to celebrate the spring equinox. With the advent of Christianity, the pagan designation was replaced by that of the Trinity Mountain. In the middle of the 7th century, it took the name of Mont Saint-Aubert. Saint Aubert, bishop of Cambrai, was a hermit who had chosen to live as a recluse on Mt. He worked there as a baker and, with the help of his donkey, sold bread to the rich to redistribute the proceeds to the poor. It was in his honor that his village Mont-Saint-Aubert was therefore named.
Chemin des Pèlerins at Mont-Saint-Aubert
Around the 12th century, a chapel dedicated to the Holy Trinity was built at Mt. At that time, a pilgrimage went there to honor the Blessed Virgin. However, the pilgrims, discouraged by the difficulty of the journey, abandoned the worship of Notre-Dame in favor of that of the Virgin of the Tumulus (chapel Notre-Dame-de-la-Tombe in Kain). In the 14th century, the fanatic sect of the Flagellants asked their supporters to climb the barefoot mount, wearing a black hat and fitted with a whip, to obtain mercy.