Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Carnac - Stones
Carnac - Stones
Carnac - Stones
Ambon - Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte
Ambon - Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte
Château de la Bretesche
Trinité-Porhoët - Eglise de la Trinité
Trinité-Porhoët - Eglise de la Trinité
Trinité-Porhoët - Eglise de la Trinité
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
Ambon - Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte
Ambon - Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte
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Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie
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The Knights Templar founded a convent here with chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. Parts of this chapel may have been "incorporated" into Notre-Dame-de-Joie. Most of the nave, the transept and the apse date back to the 12th century. 200 years later, the church got altered and the small lantern tower got replaced by an octagonal crossing tower. The steeple collapsed and got rebuilt in 1533. In 1944 the church got heavily shelled - and the spire had to be rebuilt a second time after WW2.
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