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France: Region: Pays de la Loire: Department: Vendée: ... Sainte-Foy (French ... is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
Medieval depiction of Faith's martyrdom. Her popular hagiography, Liber miraculorum sancte Fidis, [6] attributed to the churchman Bernard of Angers (composed between ca 1013 and after 1020), calls miracles associated with Faith joca—Latin for "tricks" or "jokes", the kind that "the inhabitants of the place call Sainte Foy's jokes, which is the way peasants understand such things."
The church in Sainte-Foy. Location of Sainte-Foy. ... France: Region: Normandy: Department: ... A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 9 miles ...
Sainte-Foy (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t fwa]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. See also
Sainte-Foy-d'Aigrefeuille, in the Haute-Garonne département; Sainte-Foy-de-Belvès, in the Dordogne département; Sainte-Foy-de-Longas, in the Dordogne département; Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery, in the Calvados département; Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières, in the Haute-Garonne département; Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, in the Gironde département
The name means "Holy Faith, the silver-producer"; Sainte-Foy is equivalent to the common Spanish place-name Santa Fé, and the reference is to the silver mines around which the village grew. The village is clustered around a kilometre-long main street ("la grande rue"), rising from the busy crossroads at the bottom to the high school (collège).
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The town was founded in 1076, near a priory where Sainte Foy was worshipped. The town grew rapidly, and it was renamed to Sainte-Foy-la-Grande in 1363 to distinguish it from towns with similar names in the region. A lot of the town is made from medieval buildings which date back to the 15th century.