Église Saint-Nizier

The church of Saint NIZIER is one of the great churches of Lyon, located in the neighborhood Presqu'ile, in the street of Brest. The Presqu'ile is shaped like a tongue of land between two rivers, the Rhone and the Saone, which later assembled on the tip of the presqu'ile. The first building on this site was a Roman temple at the time of the first Christians in Lyon, circa 170. In the fifth century,St. Eucher, bishop of Lyon, built it on the ruins of a basilica, and stories explain his reason was to establish a burial place for the martyrs of Lyon, killed in 177, one of them being St. Blandine, famous for having been eaten by lions.