The situation of the church in relation to the town of Aubervilliers is representative of the constitution of medieval hamlets in the Middle Age. Initially, it was a chapel around which houses were built.
The parish was created, specifically around the Saint Christopher chapel, patron saint of the hamlet and whose name is still used to call the path leading alongside the Church. A main road led to the chapel, rue du Moutier an ancient word to name a monastery, a church or chapel and the village gradually grew around the street and chapel.
We are in and a long drought distressed farmers in the village. At the same time, rain began to fall! The place became famous for this miracle. The Marshal of Toulouse offered church-candles in homage to the Virgin. They are still visible, exposed in a glass-display case located on the left aisle of the church. After the miracle of the rain, the chapel was too small to be able to contain the influx of pilgrims, in particular the processions coming from Paris to the Basilica, that stopped at the miraculous chapel on their way.
In the fifteenth century a church was built on the site of the chapel. Notre-Dame-des-Vertus was constructed according to a rectangular shape, like a hall.
The church features a particularly outstanding centre-piece with a representation of the Virgin and child. On this piece, the statue of the virgin has the particularity of carrying the child Jesus on her right arm, while usually, statues of virgins with child carry him on the left arm.
