Saint Calixte, eveything begins with a legend...
The
knight aragonais
Calixte and his cousin Mercurial came to the Louron lands in the 10th
Century to
fight the Moors.
They
arrived by the pass of
Azet, situated in front of the village of Cazaux-Fréchet.
Calixte crosses the
valley, to go to war alongside the inhabitants.
After
a terrible battle,
Calixte was fatally wounded and his body put down on a flat stone, now
known
Saint Calixte's burial place.
In
spite of his death, the
battle was won and the grateful inhabitants built a church carrying the
name of
the brave knight.
He
become a
mythical saint, and the origin of an important cult of Middle
Ages to modern times. His life was celebrated on the same day as the
homonymous Pope, October 14th.
(Please
note that there are several
versions of this legend.)
