The Church of St. Fruitful (named Bishop of Tarragona martyred in the third century) is located Taurinya in the Pyrenees-Orientales, 5 km south of Prades.
The village itself has grown to 550 meters, dominated by the south peak of Canigou.
The church dates for its oldest parts of the twelfth century, succeeding the first building. It was remodeled several times thereafter (two aisles have been built during the modern era). The nave is extended by a rectangular bedside. The square tower of the late twelfth rises north of the nave. It is 18 m high. His second and third floors are pierced with mullioned windows with capitals to plants or zoomorphic motifs, including a bull's head referring to the name of the village. The portal has kept its old leaves, studded with hardware scroll and knocker rings decorated to the punch.
Inside are preserved a large altarpiece in the master altar depicting St. Fruitful (XVII), a baroque altarpiece (late seventeenth) dedicated to St. Valentine, an altar dedicated to the Virgin of the early seventeenth.
See also, the two busts-reliquaries of St. Valentine Flamidien and (XVI) from the abbey of Saint-Michel Cuxa a "cadirette" (processional chair) Baroque, but also several statues sixteenth, seventeenth or eighteenth century.
Really rich, the church is subject to protection under the historical monuments, like part of the furniture, cabinet retains a relic stucco to the tenth or eleventh century.
Finally, fragments of a fresco from the twelfth century remain to the left of the choir probably contained St. Catherine of Alexandria. Information at +33 4 68 96 02 03.
