St Mary's features a Romanesque narthex, a Gothic nave and St Bertrand's mausoleum. The cathedral according to Flaubert: "An immense boxwood jube is the entire church, it overlooks the chancel and the nave, the priest and worshippers. Does it not have a bit of everything - Antiquity in the Romanesque, the 16th century in the 11th, the Renaissance in the Middle Ages?"This mix of different periods can be better seen in the village. In fact, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, a Romanesque church surrounded by fields, seems to have incorporated numerous elements from older religious places of worship to its construction and decor - for example, a Paleo-Christian column capital was used as a holy water font.
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