The name comes from the Latin Rosiers-d'Égletons rosarium which may indicate a field of roses, a rose garden or a wild rose bush. Égletons comes from the Germanic name Gliuto from the first half of the Middle Ages. Roses, place conquered by Caesar, is located on the old Roman road in Aquitaine Auvergne close to Égletons. The town remained a small administrative and judicial center until the 11th century when the walled city became the capital of Égletons the Viscount of Ventadour. Roses is one of the oldest courses in the first diocese of Limoges as evidenced by the dedication to the Holy Cross, characteristic of first evangelization, and the choice of his boss: St. Julien (Brioude).
During the Middle Ages, around the town is born as two of the three popes Limousin: 6th Clément (1342-1352), a great builder of the Palace of Avignon, and his nephew Gregory 11th (1370-1378) who finally brought the papacy in Rome.
The oldest parts of the church, as the polygonal apse, dating from the 12th century. The west door is Gothic Limousin, two depicting 11th and Gregory Clement sixth are in the building: one is in place in the choir (50 years) and the other nineteenth-style, is near the western entrance of the church. The church has a beautiful tabernacle and a superb gilded altarpiece (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries).
Several crosses punctuate the ancient paths and crossroads of the town.
