Mont St Michel
The “wonder of the western world”, such is the name given to this jewel located in Normandy’s Mont-Saint-Michel bay. Around the abbey and the cloister, a medieval village was built, surrounded by walls, some of which date back to the 15th century. A mystic place lapped by ocean waves.
It was at the request of the Archangel Michel « chief of the celestial militia » that Aubert, Bishop of Avranches built and consecrated a small church on the 16th October 709. In 966 a community of Benedictines settled on the rock at the request of the Duke of Normandy and the pre-Romanesque church was built before the year one thousand
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With Rome and Saint Jacques de Compostelle, this great spiritual and intellectual centre, was one of the most important places of pilgrimage for the Medieval occident. For nearly one thousand years men, women and children went there by roads called « paths to paradise » hoping for the assurance of eternity, given by the Archangel of judgement
