The author of "The Curious Case of Lorraine" has drawn a map of France on which it is a pilgrimage through an arc of circle along the 48th parallel. However, looking at the list of cities listed, you realize very quickly that the path is not linear, but it makes a rectangular geometric figure around the hill of Zion. Mount St. Odile is above the line defined by the author, then descends to the Field of Fire to arrive at Raon-l'Etape, Domremy, which are the same height as the hill of Zion, ditto for Vaudeville- the high-but not Vaudigny which is slightly above 4 km from Haroué to the right of Madon. Balmont, I did not find on the map but I know by statistics from the Meurthe she is 5 hundred meters from St. Germain is the same height as Vaudigny a little more above the line . Domblain is also the same height as Vaudigny. But where things go wrong, and that's Pierrefitte Apremont. Already there are four Pierrefitte, the first well below Sion, 15 km before Darney, on the D40 just below Légéville Bonfays-and-so and in the Vosges. The second is called Pierrefitte Pierrefitte-sur-Aire, the right of the area, 24 km to the left of St. Mihiel and Meuse therefore. The third is called Pierrefitte Pierrefitte-sur-Seine and is over 20 km from Paris, it is immediately below St Denis. The Pierrefitte-sur-Seine is located at the same height as the Pierrefitte Aire-sur-Meuse and therefore much higher than the line indicated by the author. The fourth is called Pierrefitte Pierrefitte Nestalas and is 22.5 km below Lourdes. For Apremont, I did not find the location indicated by the author. Apremont is below the mound of Montsec, 9 km to the right of St. Mihiel and called Apremont-the-Forest, also in Meuse but still much higher than the line defined the pilgrimage. Pierrefitte which to choose? That of the author? Or the Vosges? Or both?
The key to this mystery, I discovered by being offended by the deliberate forgetting of the historical importance of the village where I come from, Frouard, and its absence in the itinerary of the pilgrimage. In fact, I always sensed the importance of our village in the history of the region. You should know that the Battle of Nancy did not take place in Nancy, but even between Frouard and Champigneulles! Most importantly, there was the crest Frouard who was not only that of Lorraine, but had in addition a stick Pilgrim! I was absolutely convinced that was part of the pilgrimage Frouard mysterious but it had to prove that this implied to discover what could be sacred for Frouard Leuk. The answer came instantly to mind: the confluence of the Meurthe and Moselle at the locality of the Mouth of Hell, no doubt about that because at Raon l'Etape, another stage of the pilgrimage, there is a confluence with the River Plain and Meurthe. Then I started to study a road atlas to 1 / 200000. I had fun watching Frouard geographical position relative to one of the most important high place Spiritual Lorraine Hill of Zion. I always heard that Zion was the center of Lorraine. But why was it the center? Frouard was situated perpendicular to Zion. Pompey and followed behind. Frouard seemed more a triangular shape of the city with north, cold! Maybe there was a reason for this mysterious name for this city. I said, "if a city says the North, another must indicate the South?" And I saw the same distance in the opposite direction, by drawing a cross, Darney. Darney, a name which seems to have a Celtic origin: Daren Hedge, entrance or gate of the forest. I just had more than find the East and West. For that, I tried to take one of the cities listed in the pilgrimage, I began by m'aperçu Domremy and to the east does not correspond to his town midway between Zion Vaudeville I took it up and found on the other side and equidistant CLEZENTAINE. To summarize, here is the actual arrangement of cities and the indication of the directions they provide:
FROUARD: NORTH
VAUDEVILLE IT UP: WEST ZION: CLEZENTAINE CENTRE: IS
DARNEY: SOUTH
J obtain a sort of compass engraved in the landscape and whose Sion was the central needle! I enjoyed myself to connect the dots, and found the position of Pierrefitte Vosges on the geometrical figure obtained a diamond. Pierrefitte the Vosges was well use to discover the key. I realized that each axis alignment, there were towns that marked points through the churches.
I am so amused to see these cities on a large layer. I then thought that this diamond described by churches could hide a more complex geometric form because there were churches everywhere around Zion.
I had an initial response to the implantation of its churches in Lorraine. I concluded that some cities could well have been deliberately removed from the pilgrimage. The real path like a good line along the 48th parallel, but around Zion, there was a loop describing a diamond. The pilgrims who traveled from church to church was a huge circumambulation then continued westward toward the sunset. Note that
Frouard is located 3 ° 47 'east longitude and at about 48 ° 45' north latitude, so on the 48th parallel runs of the pilgrimage Raon.
The Vosges is located between the 47th degree 52 minutes and the 48th degree 32 minutes north latitude and between the 3rd degree 6 minutes and the 4th degree 52 minutes east longitude meridian of Paris.
I began to study the texts, books, and whatever else I had on hand at the library to find Christian symbolism in the layout of some cities indicating the cardinal points, another figure that rose as usual it was on the old compasses. But it was not enough. There was no point that famous city. This figure could only have geometric line with Christianity. Do not forget that when Christians arrived in Lorraine, christianisèrent they all worship, pagan legends in the closest possible to what was a Christian, so as not to totally subvert these beliefs and to better integrate indigenous to their advantage .
The idea came to me a picture of a book on the symbolism of the cross in a shop selling old books, Nancy. An image of a magnificent processional cross gave me the solution of the final mapping. The central diamond, the greater the whereabouts of a Christ was framed by a double diamond, a smaller registered in the largest. I tried to draw the same thing on my layer using as a departure city Domremy and conclusive result was not long in coming. The other idea was to draw centerlines to diamond by an angle of 40 ° / vertical to the axis. Forty degrees because this figure was given to me by the observation of sunrise Monday, April 7th day of the Annunciation. [Vaudeville-le-Haut, Pompey; CLEZENTAINE] also has an angle of 40 °.
look at the resulting construction:
ALIGNMENT OF CHURCHES:
Further analysis by observing the alignment of churches, I got a much clearer picture that would prove to be that of the Cross of Lorraine. This design led to many questions, the first: * What did
So this alignment if strict churches?
* This cross if it meant something, "she had an accurate operation against nature, against God?
* How was it being protected and by whom?
* For this gigantic work which has been achieved? I thought it could be that the intellectual elite of the Middle Ages: monastic orders! This conclusion is compelled me to read and search literature on this subject. It is the work of Michel Parisse, "The Monastic Lorraine" which brought me the most responses, particularly in Lorraine, the largest monastic establishment of work had been performed by the Cistercians and the Norbertines. From all this we can finally claim a first methodology study of Lorraine to determine what was there before that Christianity does not realize its geographical location of churches in the area.
To draw result is still an image of the book on the legends Lorraine I found the solution. Simply trace accurately the geometrical follows using compass to discover the route of the gigantic double-crosses Cross:
must draw three circles whose centers here:
- Pompey (North ) radius (Pompey; Sion)
- CLEZENTAINE (East) radius (CLEZENTAINE; Sion)
- Darney (South) radius (Darney; Sion)
- Vaudeville-le-Haut (West) radius (Vaudeville-le High, Zion)
This gives a first geometric figure that is often found in the church, a kind of four-pointed star whose Zion is the center. And
tracings made, we will go through village churches Lorraine!
But the plot was far from over because there were other cities Lorraine who were not at first sight of the Cross and in particular to the four cardinal points. The solution came to me again the processional cross. This cross had four smaller diamonds in the same larger central disposed at each end. These four smaller diamonds were in fact the division by four of the largest cut by two axes at 40 degrees and moved a half-width of it in four directions. These sub-divisions symbolize the four Gospels and the Christ center. I traced these smaller diamonds, and again in churches along the axes. Gradually, there were fewer and fewer churches scattered.
Points churches for the figure of the North with the center of Metz for this center is designed Magnières:
Inside is obtained as a double cardioid curve associated with a smaller central loop. Here are pictures showing the four cardinal points:
the center is a cluster of churches, but even through the complexity of this cluster, there reigns an order that can also associate with a cardioid but this time would turn around the center which is the hill of Zion. It's like the game of spirograffe of our childhood. If you spin around an axis of cardioid discovery for the four cardinal points, we get this figure of church planting:
The central geometric path becomes a superb full rosette:
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