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The Basilica of Our Lady of Avioth is a Gothic-style religious building built in the 14th century and located in the former county of Chiny (now in the north of the French department of Meuse). It has been classified as a historical monument since the first list of 1840. Given its height, the church is also called "The Cathedral of the Fields" (because it was built in the middle of nowhere).

History
Originally a simple hamlet, the village of Avioth owes its development to the miraculous discovery of a madonna with a wooden child in the course of the 12th century. It quickly became a place of pilgrimage, and the ecclesiastical and feudal authorities rapidly supported the construction of a church worthy of this pilgrimage: the great church of Avioth was then born.

Our Lady of Avioth Church enjoyed the privilege of being a very popular "sanctuary respite". The pilgrimage of Our Lady of Avioth has been taking place since the 13th century and still brings together many of the faithful today. Bernard of Clairvaux is said to have sung the Salve Regina for the first time in the church. Pope John Paul II named the building a basilica in 1993.

Notre-Dame d'Avioth is one of the few Black Madonnas in northeastern France. The carbon-14 dating of the lime tree statue of Notre-Dame d'Avioth shows that the wood was cut around 1095 and confirms the tradition that the statue was discovered in the 12th century.