Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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."
Among the district's properties are the early 18th century Jesuit House of Sillery (French: maison des Jésuites-de-Sillery), [13] [14] 19th century workers' homes on Foulon Road (French: chemin du Foulon (also known during this time period by the English language name Cove Road)) [15] and the Sillery coast (near Saint-Michel of Sillery Church (French: église Saint-Michel-de-Sillery), villas ...
Kilroy vanished that night and his remains were found on 11 April 20 miles away at a ranch alongside 14 others. Almost 34 years later, Matamoros is once again the site of global attention after ...
Its territory became a part of the Sainte-Foy—Sillery—Cap-Rouge Borough of Quebec. Of the former municipalities that now comprise Quebec, Sillery was relatively linguistically diverse. In 2006, 4.95% of its population had at least English for mother tongue, and 5.75% for languages other than French or English, [ 17 ] while for the census ...
Sainte-Foi (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t fwa]; Occitan: Santa Fe) is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France. Population.
Sainte-Foy (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t fwa]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography.
Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t fwa silʁi kap ʁuʒ]) is a borough of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The borough was created on November 1, 2009, [ 3 ] from the former borough of Sainte-Foy–Sillery and part of the former borough of Laurentien .