From the 11th century onwards, hermits (anachortes) settled in our sector by installing shelters under rocks.
In Rozières-sur-Mouzon, Valrose is an old hermitage built in the 15th century when the parish church was undergoing transformations. The bell tower housed a 1660 bell and a long canopy canopy protects the porch rebuilt in 1691.
The hermitage was placed next to the wood, all against the chapel. The hermits were always 2 at the hermitage.
It ended in 1793 with the sale of the chapel as a national property. It was then bought by Bernard Legras.
Belmont-lès-Darney, the Hermitage of the Barcans. In front of you stand a huge block of stone carved by the hermit to make it his dwelling and a kind of shallow artificial cave dug by hand of man. In front of the entrance and on the side, there are two basins, one divided into two parts, while the one on the side was dug under a rock cap. A staircase allows access above the hermitage. From there, there is a dug trench, leading straight to a square stone tank, placed on the roof just above one of the basins. After investigation, it is a rusting workshop. Rusting is the maceration of textile plants such as flax, hemp, nettle… to facilitate the separation of the filamentous bark from the stem. Hemp or flax is rusted in a road. It also required a grind to grind the stems, a comb and a spinning wheel. To complete the installation, water was needed. To do this, the hermit had to divert water from a spring, which explains the trench and the reservoir at the top of the hermitage.
In Marey, hermitage Saint-Laurent. The parish registers of Marey prove that "Brother Jean, hermit of Saint Laurent" stayed there. His death certificate was confirmed on 18 April 1692.
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