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Fair 2006 in pictures!

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 ...
The sun rises on St. Jacques, it is 6:00 AM. It is high time to welcome the first arrivals ...

The church is decorated for the occasion, the colors of Saint-Jacques: green and red.

11:30 already ... "The Ardennes anime aperitif offered by the Committee.


People settled in umbrellas or Tented for their meal.

A SWAT team handles the supply of all!

We have fun, dance, laugh!

A descendant of the "Carabouya" mentioned in the article by Jean Bonjean, 1946, is present in Saint-Jacques. It delivers hard candy, anise taste.

Pierre alum, sponges true ... This shop smells clean and the Mediterranean ...

soaps, craft scents ...

smoked garlic braids ...

Furnishings ...

Honey craft ...

Bags Bamboo ...

artisan cheese ...

Pinocchio ...

Necklaces and bracelets ceramic ...

Listed stone.

fuchsia for a good cause.

Jams ...

Cherries ...

Sausages of all kinds ...

Choco spread for food lovers ...

ceramics and much more!

In recent years, small animals are also present at the Fair of Saint-Jacques. The "Coqlis" Rencheux to have blackmailed their champions!

The "Robette" Stavelot exhibited their finest specimens.

And the donkey has left the manger to join the party.

stand "face painting" Michelle also knows a great success!

You found above all the good reasons why you come to the Fair with us next Wednesday, July 25th!

Sign already the Fair of Saint-Jacques in your diary!

Text and Photos: Committee of Saint-Jacques

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Fair 502nd St. Jacques in 2001!

In 2001, a group of parishioners of Saint-Jacques, was challenged to deliver the Fair to honor ...

Seeing the enthusiasm gained the hamlet, a committee was formed to take the organization of the Fair in hand.

dint of discussions, meetings and incentive, the program of festivities has been developed. All
wanted the show runs in the spirit of yesteryear: new traditions, friendliness, sense of family and of course fun!

To start this festive day, it was decided that the opening would be reserved for the traditional Mass of the Saint-Jacques in which the patron is asked cons children's fears. Then the appetizer! An appetizer special Saint-Jacques, whose recipe, almost secret, was developed by Guy Godfrey, a resident of the hamlet. This appetizer, it was decided to offer it to all present.
The festivities continued on the village square, under the tent erected for the occasion around a good barbecue! For this "new July 25, the sun had invited without restraint ...

To animate this day, residents of Saint-Jacques have used" The Ardennes "Trois-Ponts: the brass was once again the party! Local artisans were invited to present their products and achievements. The local confraternities were also present (sisterhood of the Cloche d'Or Saint-Jacques, among others).

On 25 July there were nearly 2,000 people who wandered in one street of the village with only that forty people ... That day also, the Fair of Saint-Jacques, back to life ...

Text: Committee of Saint-Jacques

Photos: St. Jacau Committee, 2002

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In the newspaper in 1966






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A Poem About Cell Respirations

Fair in 1946 ...



"Between Mont-de-Fosse and Saint-Jacques, only three houses, that of pastor and teacher included
...
Nothing extraordinary in this isolated corner, otherwise known as the Fair of Saint-Jacques, celebrated in the country, and every year, mobilizes, July 25, Ardenne whole Aywaille La Roche, Stavelot Houffalize.

Despite wars, revolutions, political upheavals, she bravely stood the test of centuries.

Fair has played an important role in the Middle Ages. A high pole at the edge of the fir that the location bar which circumscribes the picturesque market reminds us in a curious inscription. During the reign of the Prince-abbots of Stavelot they had the privilege to release a criminal on this site, the day of the fair. The ceremony

popular because it is an event for the whole country, takes place in a vast meadow lying near the hamlet of Bergeval. What a lovely name! Throughout its range, hundreds and hundreds of cattle, horses, poultry, pigs. Alongside this rich living, teams of any kind, since the old wheelbarrow and chariot ancestral to the cars to sedans, the pride of wealthy peasants.






Then, shops and stalls in the open air, with bottles bellied shimmering gold and victuals too tempting and varied: ceramic, stuffed buns, fried brown in a pot inexhaustible tardes rice as cart wheels, barley sugar, waffles, beer, sparkling pastries to "Glet" most gourmets, an avalanche of nougat cut by a voluble Carabouya as stylish as ... "Ladies and Gentlemen, I Carabouilla, nougat, nougat, good character, never married, never stepmother, never quarrel in the house. "

Besides, needs of households and farms: aprons for women and children, fake jewelry, silk scarf, mousetraps, fancy carpets called Persia, umbrellas the merchant to the wonder of the crowd deploys and returns in all directions, a virtuoso, old irons, sticks, clubs, jackets, tools, compasses, Secretary of lovers, books revenue healing all ills, harrows, sickles, harness, plows, ...

hours s' sell on the fairgrounds ... The auction bend gradually. Showmen dismantle their shacks. The musicians at the end blast, put away their horns. When the show goes off, loneliness comes into possession of an area that men have borrowed within a 25 July.

And so, under the gaze lenient and tolerant of his revered pastor the old Ardenne reasserts itself. "


TEXT: Albert Bonjean, Nostalgic the Ardennes, ed. Ch Vinche, Verviers 1946.

PHOTOS: Archives Committee of Saint-Jacques, private donations. The photos date from the 50's - early 60's.
1: In front of the old church (demolished in 1961)
2: Livestock
3: Gambling
4: The crowd
5: Gambling


Extension:

1. In an article by Dr. PF LOMRY , we learn that there are, according to him, a connection between where were celebrated the pagan cults and those where the birth took the oldest fairs. He wrote about Saint-Jacques: "How to explain the presence of a church and a fairground in the same lonely place other than the substitution of Christian worship at a Druidic cult, with the persistence of trade indispensable religious ceremonies of paganism? "

2. A name was given to the fair:" Lu was drilled celiches "Fair Cherry ...

3. The fair, as presented in 1946, has permanently discontinued in the mid 70 . The fairground is more, a holiday village is located.

4. The fair was given to the agenda in 2001 ... But this is the subject of another article ...

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Story of a village in the Ardennes























On the path of pilgrims

The small village of Saint-Jacques (the present town of Three Bridges) is on the natural path that pilgrims en route to San Jacques de Compostela.

The pilgrims, after stopping at Stavelot, to venerate the remains of Saint Remacle, were heading along the right bank of the Amel, north of Parfondruy, through the "Cross the nails' to Three Bridges, where two streams flow into the Amel.
After the passage of Amel, a path abrupt called Lu Voye of Sint-Djaka "up the valley to the place now called" Mont Saint-Jacques. " There was a small chapel. Then the pilgrims continued their journey to Lierneux then to La Roche. Then it was straight line to St. Hubert by passing through "Converserie" pilgrimage route towards the south and then to Spain but also to Rome and the Holy Land.
















Church and origin

The earliest evidence encountered at the site of the ancient church of Saint-Jacques are those of a small Christian building in very simple plan, consisting of a nave and a small choir.
This shrine was a small "cella" which dates back the 7th century.
The remains of the cella were updated during the excavations at the site of the church in 1961.

Towards 1130, the church Fosse is on the list of those who pay a fee to the church of Stavelot. The church of Saint-Jacques is already alive and well. Many times it is cited in the records of the Principality of Stavelot Malmedy. This church was built on the remains of the "cella" of the 7th century. In 1843, the bishop of Liege said that "the church is too large and too old." Are then undertaken any a series of refurbishment work, and work will actually finish in 1900 with the replacement of the dome with a slate roof, with 4 equal sections.

The nights of 26 December 1944 to January 8, 1945, the church, which is an observatory of the valley, receives many bombs. The damage will be significant.



It was decided in 1961 to demolish the ruins of the church in 1862 to erect the same location, a new church. Plans were drawn up by architect Geenen Spa. It is a company that will perform the Stavelot work.

The building was demolished in 1961 consisting of a nave, a large choir ending in a recent vestry to the west and preceded by a transept and a porch tower topped by a steeple. The soul of this church came from the beautiful color of stone it was made (local sandstone) and the magnificent ancient oaks that surrounded it.



In 1962, October 28, the first stone was laid ... The church will be dedicated Dec. 20, 1964.

The current church of Saint-Jacques draws by its modernity, its building ... A simple but welcoming old oak always watch over her. He traveled through time ...



Sources:
Text H. Stembert, Saint-Jacques
Illustrations from: J. Mertens and F. Bourgeois, The church of Saint-Jacques-on-Fosse Salm, extracted from the newsletter of the Society for Art and History, Liege, 1965
1 and 2: localization of Saint-Jacques
3: church 1831
4: the church in 1961
5: the church in 1965