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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."
Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t fwa taʁɑ̃tɛz]) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise is a village in the Tarentaise Valley in Savoie, France. The old village lies on the main road between Bourg-Saint-Maurice and Val-d'Isère.
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-de-Montgommery (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t fwa də mɔ̃ɡɔmʁi] ⓘ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Val-de-Vie .
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.
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).
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 ...