Mont Saint-Rahy / Mont Saint-Rahi / Mont-Saint-Rahy lez-Bomal sur Ourthe

INFORMATION

Font ID: 26162QXA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (?)
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel Saint Rahy / Saint-Rahi / Eglise [disparue] de Mont-Saint-Rahy à Bomal / église Saint-Denis-L'Aéropagite, also called chapelle Saint-Rahy
Font Location in Church: disappeared
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Rahy
Other Dedications: St. Denis
Church Notes: "église de Mont-Saint-Denis a probablement été édifiée au début du 12e siècle par les moines de Stavelot-Malmédy et/ou le seigneur de Logne." -- original church had parochial function; probably disappeared in the 16thC when the whole village was abandoned; present chapel built 1915
Church Address: 6941 Bomal (Durbuy), Belgium
Site Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared villegae is located off the N86, near Bomal-sur-Ourthe / Boumål-so-Oûte, about 11 km NE of Durbuy
Historical Region: Ardenne belge
Additional Comments: disappeared font? disappeared church / disappeared village: village of Mont Saint Rahy, a small community of 26 houses that was abandoned in the 16th century due to a devastating epidemic.
Font Notes:
[NB: we have no information on the font of the disappeared chapel [cf. FontNotes] of the equally disappeared village].
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 February 2026) informs: "In a visit report of 1725, the archdeacon mentioned “the closed baptistery” in the otherwise partly ruined and largely deserted church. No trace of fonts and baptismal records." Pol Herman includesd a link to a video about the site https://www.lavenir.net/regions/2021/08/16/video-un-site-oublie-qui-ne-cesse-dintriguer-RSA5I5HKEJGXDO2YQQEWFG4P3Y/
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this site to our attention and for his help documenting it

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