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  2. Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey - Wikipedia

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    In 710, Mont Tombe was renamed Mont-Saint-Michel au péril de la Mer ("Mount Saint Michael at the peril of the sea", "Mons Sancti Michaelis in periculo maris") after an oratory was erected to Saint Michael by bishop Saint Aubert of Avranches in 708. According to the legend, Aubert received, during his sleep, three times the order from Saint ...

  3. Mont-Saint-Michel - Wikipedia

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    Mont-Saint-Michel is a World Wonder in Civilization VI. [36] Mont-Saint-Michel is featured in Onimusha 3: Demon Siege in which the abbey is overrun by demons in both the 16th and 21st centuries and subsequently destroyed. A fictionalized version of the island, Beaumont-Saint-Denis, serves as the location for Sniper Elite 5's third mission. [37]

  4. Manoir de Brion - Wikipedia

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    The abbey of Mont Saint-Michel pictured in the distance. The Manoir de Brion (French pronunciation: [ma.nwaʁ də bʁi.jɔ̃]), also known as the Château de Brion, is a former Benedictine priory of the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, France. It is located near the village of Genêts, in Normandy, and was founded in 1137 by the abbot Bernard du Bec ...

  5. Sacra di San Michele - Wikipedia

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    The Sacra di San Michele, sometimes known as Saint Michael's Abbey, is a religious complex on Mount Pirchiriano, situated on the south side of the Val di Susa in the territory of the municipality of Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont region of northwestern Italy.

  6. Saint Michael's line - Wikipedia

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    Like Mont Saint-Michel, Sacra di San Michele and the Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo are reported to have been constructed at the behest of St. Michael himself. [3] According to legend, the Sacred Line of Saint Michael represents the blow the Saint inflicted upon the Devil when he cast him into Hell, as per the story of the Fall of Satan. [4]

  7. File:Blason abbaye fr Mont Saint Michel (50).svg - Wikipedia

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    Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel; Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval; Henri II de Guise; Utilisateur:Bruno Vallette; Le Mont-Saint-Michel; France (héraldique) Utilisateur:Fitzwarin/2009; Usage on gl.wikipedia.org Robert de Torigni; Usage on it.wikipedia.org Abbazia di Mont-Saint-Michel; Usage on la.wikipedia.org Mons Sancti Michaelis; Usage on www ...

  8. Mont-Saint-Michel Bay - Wikipedia

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    Polders have been developed in Mont-Saint-Michel Bay from the 8th century or earlier than that. Between "Pointe de Château-Richeux" and Mont Saint-Broladre seashell deposits have been used to create levees around Dol marsh. To the East of Sainte-Anne chapel is the "Duchesse-Anne" levee. It is 20 kilometres (12 mi) long.

  9. List of Benedictine monasteries in France - Wikipedia

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    Abbey of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambrai (Abbaye du Saint-Sépulcre de Cambrai), monks (1064-1791) Cambrai Abbey, see Fémy Abbey, (Abbaye de Notre-Dame de la Consolation de Cambrai, Abbaye des Anglaises (1625-1795)), nuns [22] Le Canigou Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Martin du Canigou), monks, Diocese of Perpignan (Casteil, Pyrénées-Orientales)