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It became a center for assistance to Breton pilgrims. The church was pulled down and rebuilt in 1878 by Luca Carimini in Neo-Renaissance style. Roma Sant'Ivo dei Bretoni - Ipotesi di sopravvivenza degli elementi antichi nella nuova struttura
The most notable feature of the village is the large Basilica of Sainte-Anne d'Auray, which is a major site of pilgrimage. Saint Anne is the patron saint of Brittany. The Basilica was built in Neo-Gothic style from 1865 to 1872 to replace an earlier church which had housed the ancient statue of Anne said to have been miraculously discovered by Yves Nicolazic.
There were probably two or three Breton saints named Melor who were conflated, and a handful of late medieval hagiographies record legends relating to him. Several churches in Brittany and two in Cornwall are dedicated to Melor; the primary cultic center was at Lanmeur. After his relics were acquired by Amesbury Abbey, he was adopted as a co ...
Ancient Metropolitan of Tours - Archbishop of Tours - Archdiocese of Tours - All Breton Dioceses were subordinate to Tours until Rennes was raised to an archdiocese. The Duke of Brittany attempted to make Dol the archdiocese in charge of Breton Dioceses, but this was rebuffed by Rome in favor of Tours, and eventually the Diocese of Dol ceased to be an archdiocese.
Inside is the shrine said to be of Saint Pompeia and bas-relief panels recounting her legend. Sainte-Sève: Saint Scaeva's Church there contains a statue of Saint Pompeia; the name of the locality, Trébompé, probably stems from a corruption of the name Pompeia.
Built in the eighth century at the place where Judoc's shrine was kept, the Abbey of Saint-Josse was a small monastery situated on the site of his retreat. In 903, some monks of the abbey fled Norman raiders for England, where they bore Judoc's relics, which were enshrined in the newly built New Minster in Winchester . [ 7 ]
Winwaloe (Breton: Gwenole; French: Guénolé; Latin: Winwallus or Winwalœus; c. 460 – 3 March 532) was the founder and first abbot of Landévennec Abbey (literally "Lann of Venec"), also known as the Monastery of Winwaloe. It was just south of Brest in Brittany, now part of France.
Saint Hervé is venerated throughout Brittany. His feast day is June the 17th. He is represented accompanied by a tame wolf. [5]In Lanrivoaré, the hermitage of Saint-Hervé, built according to the model of Irish hermitages, houses the ruins of a chapel, a fountain and a stone cell said to have housed the saint.