Notre Dame de la Garoupe

Notre Dame de Bon Port is the patron saint of the sailors of Antibes, who hold a procession with her statue every year in the month of July.

The fresco in the right-hand side of the church was executed in 1953 by Jacques-Henri Clergues and commemorates the visit of Pope Gregory XI to Antibes in 1376 and the gift of René de Savoie.

The fresco in the left-hand sanctuary offers visitors a spiritual image of sailors and other citizens of Antibes and was executed in 1948 by the painter Édouard Collin.

Unlike many churches in France, Notre Dame de la Garoupe was spared the vandalism of revolutionaries during the French Revolution.

[3] The Corporation des Marins d'Antibes holds an annual festival that recalls and solicits the protections that have been offered to sailors by Notre Dame de Bon Port since the 16th century.

[3] Following the custom for this procession, her statue is carried down by sailors to the Antibes Cathedral on the first Thursday of July by the way of the stations of the cross that line a roughly paved path.

The church of Notre Dame de la Garoupe
Notre Dame de Bon Port in the left nave of the church. She carries a three-masted ship in her right hand.
Notre Dame de la Garde, whose statue is located in the right nave of the church. She is surrounded by an ornate, gold retable .
Notre Dame de Bon Port surrounded by frescoes depicting Antibois sailors and townspeople
The three masted ship in the right hand of Notre Dame de Bon Port
Scene depicting sailors in procession with the statue of Notre Dame de Bon Port
Plaque commemorating 1000 years of pilgrimage to Notre Dame de la Garoupe