Saint-Gravé (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ɡʁave]; Breton: Sant-Gravez) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in northwestern France. The canal...
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explorer in the New World. François Gravé Du Pont came from the great seaport of Saint-Malo, on the coast of Brittany. Gravé Du Pont had borne arms before becoming...
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Lauzach Limerzel Malansac Molac Pluherlin Questembert Rochefort-en-Terre Saint-Gravé Sulniac Trédion La Vraie-Croix "Décret n° 2014-215 du 21 février 2014...
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create their own commune and parish. The fishermen found the church in Saint-Cornély to be too far from the port, and had one built in a more convenient...
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Wali (redirect from Sufi saint)
Muslim thinkers as "documentary evidence" of the existence of saints. Graves of saints around the Muslim world became centers of pilgrimage – especially...
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is no direct line from Vannes to Saint-Brieuc (118 km away in the north of Brittany), so the train from Vannes to Saint Brieuc goes via Rennes, which doubles...
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Marquis de La Roche-Mesgouez, and at Tadoussac, Quebec, in 1600 by François Gravé Du Pont, had failed. Cartographer Samuel de Champlain was part of the Dugua...
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part of the Quiberon peninsula, the northern part being the commune of Saint-Pierre-Quiberon. It is primarily known as a seaside resort for French tourists...
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The Saint-Michel tumulus is a megalithic grave mound, located east of Carnac in Brittany, France. It is the largest grave mound in continental Europe...
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port of Saint-Goustan to re-capture the town of Port Royal in Acadia on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. Benjamin Franklin arrived at the port of Saint-Goustan...
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Graves-Saint-Amant (French pronunciation: [ɡʁav sɛ̃.t‿amɑ̃]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. Communes of the Charente department...
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Saint Peter's tomb is a site under St. Peter's Basilica that includes several graves and a structure said by Vatican authorities to have been built to...
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A cult of saints played a key part within Anglo-Saxon Christianity, a form of Roman Catholicism practised in Anglo-Saxon England from the late sixth to...
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Crispin and Crispinian (redirect from Crispin (saint))
sixth century, a stately basilica was erected at Soissons over these saints' graves, and St. Eligius, a famous goldsmith, made a costly shrine for the head...
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Molac, Pluherlin, Malansac, Saint-Gravé, Peillac, Saint-Jacut-les-Pins, Saint-Vincent-sur-Oust, Allaire, Saint-Perreux, Saint-Jean-la-Poterie Sandre. "Fiche...
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The Basilica of Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former...
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and chandelier Stained glass window Scheme of tsars' graves Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg. List of tallest Orthodox churches List of...
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Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys (Breton: Lokentaz) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. Inhabitants of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys...
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Rogatec (redirect from Saint Bartholomew Mass Grave)
the beginning of 1941. The Saint Bartholomew Mass Grave (Grobišče pri sv. Jerneju) lies inside the northwest wall around Saint Bartholomew's church. The...
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possible to hire a boat to explore the waterway. The nearby village of Saint-Marcel houses a museum dedicated to the Breton Resistance movement where...
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Sainte-Anne-d'Auray (category Saint Anne)
famous for its sanctuary and for its pilgrimages, or "pardons", in honour of Saint Anne, to whom the Breton people, in very early times, on becoming Christian...
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church is probably the fourth church that was built on the site of the grave of Saint Servatius, an Armenian missionary who was bishop of Tongeren and died...
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comprises three military educational facilities: École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, France's foremost military academy dedicated to the training of Army...
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(56216) Saint-Gravé (56218) Saint-Guyomard (56219) Saint-Jacut-les-Pins (56221) Saint-Jean-la-Poterie (56223) Saint-Laurent-sur-Oust (56224) Saint-Malo-de-Beignon...
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known for its giant Belon oysters. Towns bordering on the Canton of Auray: Saint-Philibert and Crac'h As of 2019, the village had a population of 1,552....
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Saint Louis Cemetery (French: Cimetière Saint-Louis, Spanish: Cementerio de San Luis) is the name of three Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans, Louisiana...
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All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian...
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The Saint-Ouen Cemetery (French: Cimetière Parisien de Saint-Ouen) is located just north of Montmartre at Saint-Ouen, near Paris. The cemetery consists...
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and decoration of family graves as well as religious rituals. The name pattern is a corruption of patron, as in "patron saint". In the earlier days of...
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Karamat (redirect from Miracles of the Saints (Islam))
the saints. The fourteenth-century Hanbali scholar ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328), despite his well-known objections to ziyara (visiting of saints' graves), nevertheless...
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