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Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire Church
Religious building, Historic site and monument
in Fort-de-France
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After the volcanic eruption of August 30th 1902, Morne-Rouge was destroyed, its church, ruined, was abandoned and the miraculous statue of Notre-Dame de la Délivrande was temporarily brought to Fort-de-France.
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To restore the pilgrimage to Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Monseigneur de Cornont had a church built, closer to the capital, at La Redoute, where disaster victims had taken refuge.
On June 29th, 1904, the first stone of the new sanctuary was blessed. In the midst of the crowd, the Madonna was enthroned there with great pomp in 1906 and remained there until 1912.
Le Morne-Rouge was repopulated, its church covered and renovated, and Notre-Dame de la Délivrande was brought back to its stronghold...To restore the pilgrimage to Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Monseigneur de Cornont had a church built, closer to the capital, at La Redoute, where disaster victims had taken refuge.
On June 29th, 1904, the first stone of the new sanctuary was blessed. In the midst of the crowd, the Madonna was enthroned there with great pomp in 1906 and remained there until 1912.
Le Morne-Rouge was repopulated, its church covered and renovated, and Notre-Dame de la Délivrande was brought back to its stronghold during a great pilgrimage. La Redoute, erected as a parish by episcopal decree in 1924, takes its name from a fortification once erected in this place by the Claude-François de Bouillé government to protect Fort Desaix from attacks from the East.
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