Fr. Trask's Sabbatical Ruminations

The Hotel-Dieu is a hospital founded in 1443 by Nicholas Rolin, Chancellor of the Dukes of Burgundy, an dhis wife Guigone de Salins.  This charitable institution, also called ‘a palace for the poor,’ was entrusted to the care of the hospitaller sisters in order to be dedicated to the wandering and destitute sick.  It remained in operation until 1971.

Emblematic monument of Burgundy, known for its polychrome glazed roofs, the Hotel-Dieu is a major place of hospital history, with its Last Judgment polyptych by Rogier van der Weyden, its collections of furniture and works of arts, its kitchen, its apothecary and its treatment rooms.