Early Christian site

This early Christian site is one of the oldest traces of Bordeaux's history. A section of an early Christian cemetery has been found here. According to tradition, this necropolis was consecrated by Christ and seven bishop saints, and some of the valiant knights who died at Roncevaux were buried here. In the Middle Ages, pilgrims of Saint James came here to engage in private prayer. Excavations carried out between 1909 and 1910 to the south of the church uncovered stacked tombs dating from the 4th to the 13th century. Later excavation phases carried out in the late 1950s, and then between 1964 and 1969, led to the creation of this crypt, which has been open to the public since the early 1980s.