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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 Sainte-Foy abbey-church in Conques Church doors and tympanum. The Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques, France, was a popular stop for pilgrims traveling the Way of St. James to Santiago de Compostela, in what is now Spain. The main draw for medieval pilgrims at Conques were the remains of Sainte-Foy, a young woman martyred during the ...
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.
The Chapel of Sainte-Foy (commonly called the "Chapel of the White Penitents") is a Roman Catholic chapel located in the heart of Montpellier, at 14 Rue Jacques Coeur. Dedicated to Saint Foy , the chapel was originally established in the Middle Ages.
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 church in Sainte-Foy. Location of Sainte-Foy. ... France: Region: Normandy: Department: ... A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 9 miles ...
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).
In 1094, the centre of the adoration of Saint Faith was moved to Conques, where a grander sanctuary and pilgrimage site was being built as the Abbey Church of Saint Foy. [2] The church was rebuilt in the 12th century as the centre of a monastery. In 1615, it became a Jesuit college (see also Jesuit Church, Molsheim), which it remained until 1767.