The Capuchin chapel was built in 1619. The building site was donated by M. de la Bernède. The local population helped with the work. The chapel door is reminiscent of the style of the period, with its pilasters and triangular pediment bearing the inscription “Ecclesia A.D 1619 excitata” = (Church erected in the year of the Lord 1619).
During the plague of 1630, the Capuchins showed great devotion to the inhabitants. One of them, Father Philippe de Francon, who had already worked hard to combat the plague in Toulouse, came to Cazères and used his authority and skill to bring the epidemic under control.
In 1791, the convent was sold as national property to several private individuals, who donated the chapel to the parish a few years later.
From 1858, the convent became home to a school and boarding school for young girls run by the Congregation of Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus. Richly decorated, it also served as a parish annex until 1908, when it was converted into an auxiliary hospital to care for the wounded during the Great War.
Today, it houses the cinema.
