The oratory takes its name from Saint Céneré (or Cerenico[1]), a Benedictine monk born in Spoleto in the 7th century; he was sent by Pope Martin I to preach in Merovingian Gaul with his brother, Serenicus, and with him he arrived in the diocese of Le Mans, in Saulges, around 649–650.

The oratory was rebuilt in stone in 1849 by the Marquis de la Rochelambert, who owned the land, with the assistance of the Saulges factory.

[3] Access to the oratory is facilitated by two stairways leaning against the hill; the nave that extends the chapel is covered by a roof terrace.

The interior of the chapel is decorated with a painting attributed to Adeline Neveu [Wikidata], which depicts Céneré healing the blind and the paralyzed; four stained glass windows from the end of the 19th century came from the dismantling of the Plessis chapel and represent the Sacred Heart, the Virgin, Saint Joseph and Saint Alexander.

[4] In the cave below, the 18th-century statue of Saint Cénéré in polychrome wood, restored in 2005, surmounts the spring described by Grosse Dupéron.