The best MTB trails around Saint-Jeoire

The Church of Saint Andrew in Saint-André-de-Boëge is a French Catholic church located in the Haute-Savoie department, in the commune of Saint-André-de-Boëge. An earlier church is documented dating back to around the 12th century. The church was built between 1855 and 1858[1]. It was constructed in a Sardinian Neoclassical style. In 1987, the building was completely renovated and the paintings were redone.

Point d'intersection Boëge Altitude 741m

Intersection point of the Vouan Forest Road, Altitude 664m

Intersection Point: La Gouille aux Morts (Pond of the Dead) Altitude 650m Gouille aux Morts: What an ugly name for this charming little pond. Beavers, mallards, herons, and especially frogs take shelter in its tall grass and breed there. The place is calm and peaceful, far from the road to the Vallée Verte (Green Valley), although you can still hear the sounds of traffic. Above it, the Molière à Vachat stream is mirrored in its waters. Its reflection blends with the water lilies scattered there, creating perfect harmony. A delight for the eye of the walker. It's impossible not to think of Monet's "Water Lilies." It is said that, long ago, two stonemasons working at the "Molière," located about fifty meters above, fell to their deaths there on a Sunday (yes, a Sunday...the Lord's Day). See: H. Savoie: Les Molières du Mont Vouan. Or perhaps the pond got its name because a peasant was swallowed up there with his cart...

Born on September 6, 1799, in Sévillon, a hamlet of Onnion, son of Marin Jacquard de Sévillon and Marie Monge de Mégevette, he studied at the minor seminary of Mélan, located in the former Mélan charterhouse in Taninges, then at the major seminary of Chambéry. He completed his theological studies at the Seminary of Foreign Missions in Paris, where he was ordained a priest on March 15, 1823. His journey to Cochinchina (Vietnam) lasted two and a half years, arriving in Cochinchina, where he landed clandestinely on January 5, 1826. He took the name Kinh Gan Lam and participated in the life of the Church in this region of the world, where, along with two other missionaries and thirty priests from Cochinchina, he accompanied 70,000 Christians on their journey. King Minh Mang persecuted Christians. He wanted to deprive the Church of its leaders by keeping them under surveillance. Thus, as early as 1829, he detained François near Hué, his capital, asking him to act as his interpreter and explain recent European history; François was thus able to continue his missionary work to a minimum. In 1833, after the king's decree of general persecution, he was held prisoner in the Ai Lao penal colony for nearly two years, then in prison near the capital, where he was nevertheless asked to teach French to nine young men. He stated: "I have not stopped and will not stop preaching when I can." In 1838, he was sentenced to death, chained and given the "cangue" (a type of ladder around the head). On September 21, 1838, he was tortured and strangled, along with an 18-year-old Christian, Thomas Thien. In 1840, two years after his death, Pope Gregory XVI opened the beatification process and declared him Venerable. The Seville Oratory, near the chapel, commemorates this event. In 1900, Pope Leo XIII declared him Blessed. On June 19, 1988, Pope John Paul II canonized him along with 116 other martyrs of Vietnam. Annual pilgrimage to Seville in June and liturgical feast on September 23.

Intersection point Le Marquisat Altitude 875m

Magnificent view of Mont Blanc

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