History

        Saint Martin de Brux has never had to suffer serious damage in war times, not even in periods of prosperity, often more disastrous for the so-called "barbaric" or "primitive" architectures. It was classified in the "Monument Historique" files in 1914. Restorations in the XXth Century last two decades were led with archaeological respect.

       Brusc, Brucs, Bruz or Brux, whatever the written form , it is the old celtic war cry, which remains trough roman, nordman, arabic, and english invasions, religious, political and cultural revolutions.

     Millenarium begins. Over pictes sarcophaguses, the Lusignans raise the walls of a cult place, but  also refuge place: thick the walls, rare the openings. The Fée Mélusine, who, according to the legend, still builds fortresses and churches in a night, with 'a laptop of stones and a gulp of water' , concedes the construction of St Martin to human beings. They apply the last architectural technique: a slightly broken arch vault propped up on each side by two half-tunnel vaults. But they kept a classic apse in quarter of sphere and a bell tower carried by a dome resting on four squinches.

      John M. Mansfield, in his almost exhaustive 'Some Dated Registrations of Gaul, Germany and Spain'  marks the last reading : 1171.

      For his part, an uncertain Pasteur Lièvre wrote, at the beginning of the XXth century: 'the church does not appear to go back beyond XIIIth century, but it succeeded to an other which circa 1080 was the property of the brothers Geldoin and Vivien'.

      Finally, a minority of unbelievers thinks that the edifice was never built, existed only in the Jorge Luis Borges imaginary , or as the Cluny Abbey, only in a virtual way. To those we can only say 'Come and touch...'