Moine Amand

About 633, Amand, a missionary monk and evangelist from Maestricht, received from King Dagobert a land of marshes located between two rivers of Pévèle, the Scarpe and the Elnon. The heavy task that falls to him is to build a monastery to evangelize the population of this region. Amand died there around 660-675. Very quickly, a town developed around this community of the Benedictine order. The abbey, then the whole city, will take the name of their founder.
In 2004, the city council inaugurated the statue of the Monk Amand, the work of the Touraine sculptors Carole and Bernard SELLIER. This bronze statue measures 2.10 meters and weighs about 250 kilos. It shows several of his attributes such as his crook and the defeated dragon. Imposing and expressive, Amand has the particularity of not being represented in medieval clothes, the sculptors wanting to give the work a timeless character.

The statue is a work of art, which is the result of the work of the sculptor