Second Saturday in August
Notre Dame du Rocher, La Meyze, Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
"A man whose wife was very sick made a vow: 'If my wife gets well, I'll have a chapel built.'"[1] She must have recovered, for there have been two chapels in this spot in west-central France: the first, dedicated to Notre Dame du Pont, Our Lady of the Bridge, and the present one, dedicated to Notre-Dame du Rocher, Our Lady of the Rock. During the Revolution, the first chapel was destroyed, but the statue saved and given to the care of the local priest, whom the regime then exiled to Spain. In 1803—after Napoleon's republican administration had signed the Concordat, agreeing to allow religious worship but not to fund it—Father Maud returned to La Meyze. He set up the statue in a rural valley south of the village, along the Ruisseau des Planches (Planks Creek), against a rock formation. In 1844, a new curé built a small oratory against the rock, enclosing the statue in its niche, providing a place to say mass, and increasing pilgrimages to the site. After the railroad came through the valley, church authorities moved the shrine to the promontory on the plateau above, where the present chapel was blessed August 13, 1877.[2] The statue (right), resembling the image on the Miraculous Medal (1832) may not be the original Notre Dame du Pont.[3] Mass is said in the Chapelle de Notre-Dame du Rocher on the second Saturday in August.[4]
[1] "La Chapelle du Rocher," Paroisse Saint-Aurélien, saintaurelien.com/2-nos-2-relais/relais-de-nexon-2/eglise-de-la-meyze/la-chapelle-du-rocher/
[2] André Lecler, Martyrs et confesseurs de la foi du Diocèse de Limoges, pendent le révolution française, Volume 2, H. Ducourtieux, 1900, p. 621.
[3] The photo source, "Notre-Dame du Rocher, La Meyze," SANCTUAIRES MARIALS en Limousin, arliquet.fr/limousin/rocher2.php, doesn't specify the statue's location. It does not appear in a photo of the chapel altar on the parish website.
[4] "Vie paroissiale et religieuse," La Meyze au cœur du Limousin, www.lameyze.net/paroisse
Also commemorated this date:
 | Madonna del Carmine, Brancaleone, Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy. Nautical procession. |
| Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia, Bermellar, Salamanca, Castile-Leon, Spain. Fiesta: mass, rosary, baked goods auction, entertainment. |