Saint Amadour

Popular piety gave him the name of Amator, “lover”, “friend” of God, typical of courtly literature of the time.

Driven forth from Palestine by persecution, Amadour and Veronica embarked in a frail skiff and, guided by an angel, landed on the coast of Aquitaine, where they met Bishop St.

Amadour, having returned to France, on the death of his spouse, withdrew to a wild spot where he built a chapel in honour of the Blessed Virgin, near which he died a little later.

The name of Amadour occurs in no document previous to the compilation of his Acts, which cannot be judged older than the twelfth century.

[2] The Shrine of Our Lady of Rocamadour is under the auspices of the Diocese of Cahors which holds that the remains could be those of one of the hermits established in the Alzou canyon from the 7th century, and whose cave could have been the first chapel of the site.