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Due to the nearness of the Aran Valley to the Via Tolosana and its dependence on the Comminges diocese (until 1804), Sant Andrèu de Salardú became a local pilgrimage church, close to sanctuaries endowed with relics in the upper course of the Garonne river. The reason for the pilgrimage was the Romanesque Saint Christ of Salardú, which was attributed a great number of miracles of all kinds, even prior to when a piece of the Lignum Crucis arrived at the church. Such a number of worshippers came, that many indulgences were granted in exchange for donations. The church still preserves structural and ornamental elements, some of them from its origin, that refer to its role as a church of pilgrimage. It is made clearer due to the fact that it had housed a brotherhood and a chapel devoted to Saint James, ornamented with the pictorial cycle of the miracles of the hanged boy and the one of the rooster and the hen. |
