Sainte Foy Abbey Church, Conques, Aveyron, Auvergne

Visited in May 2022

Sainte Foy Abbey Church, Conques, Aveyron, Auvergne
The Ste Foy abbey church is a famous landmark on the Camino de Santiago
The Doom's (last judgment) tympanum on the main portal.
Weighing the souls by St Michael, with the devil cheating on the scale
One of the "little curious" : angels around the tympanum, "unrolling the firmament"
John the Baptist, dressed in a camel's hair jacket, his right arm raised to heaven, carries an open book with the inscription: "John said, Behold the Lamb of God" Sculpture situated in the transept, 8 meters above the ground, 12thC
Consecration cross
Mermaid and centaur