In the Notre-Dame du Puy Cathedral, the Black Madonna is venerated. The one we can admire today on the main altar is a 17th century copy from the former chapel of Saint-Maurice, and was taken to the cathedral in 1856 to replace the original, burned during the French Revolution. The statue that was destroyed had been donated in the 13th century by St. Louis of France, who had brought it with him upon his return from the 7th crusade. The body of the current Madonna, and that of the Child, is covered with a mantle from which only their crowned heads emerge.