Aux origines du monachisme en Gaule (V^e-XI^e s.) : les fouilles de l'église du Saint-Sauveur, Lérins, Île Saint-Honorat, Alpes-Maritimes

The island Saint-Honorat of Lerins experienced a monastic occupation from 400-410. It is well informed thanks to several written sources. The archeological searchs done these last years have been focused on the Saint-Sauveur chapel. They brought remarkable informations, espacially on the first times of monastic life. The state I of the Vth century corresponds to an oratory which comes with a building interpreted as a hermit life space. In the state II, in use from the end of Vth -begenning of VIth to the beginning of the VIIIth century this hermit life space disapeared to be replaced by a funerary space linked to the deceased veneration. Beyond, the occupation can be followed till nowadays through the successive building of three churchs. So the site illustrates archaelogically the changes of monastic lifestyle especially between the Vth an the XIth century.