RESPONSIBILITY AND ROUTAGE
By offering these stained glass windows in 1988, the Fondation François-Xavier Bagnoud wanted to celebrate the ultimate act of charity: saving a life at the risk of its own.
Made from a drawing by Cecilia Bozzoli, these stained glass windows illustrate the rescue in the mountains. They were fashioned in Jacques Simon's workshop by Charles and Benoît Marcq, heirs of a line of four centuries old glass masters, known notably for having made the works of Marc Chagall and Veira da Silva.
The work traces the history of alpine rescue, from the monks of Saint-Bernard de Menthon and their dogs who rescue lost travellers, mountain guides equipped with stretchers, ropes and pinets, to modern helicopter pilots equipped with state-of-the-art equipment. It embodies a tradition deeply rooted in the history of Valais.
In 1989, the FXB Foundation also co-financed, with the parish of Verbier, the purchase and installation of the new organs of the main church of the village.