Notre-Dame de Kerbader
The Notre-Dame de Kerbader chapel ( French : Chapelle Notre-Dame de Kerbader ; Breton : Chapel Itron-Varia Kerbader ; German : Chapel of Our Lady of Kerbader ) is a church in the Breton parish of Fouesnant , near Mousterlin beach .
The chapel of Kerbader was built in the 17th and 18th centuries , but an older church building was already in its place in the 16th century. Its floor plan is laid out in the form of a Latin cross . The building has been renovated since the late 1980s; New windows, which were installed in 2009, formed the conclusion.
The chapel is also called Notre-Dame des Neiges , "Our Lady of the Snow". One of the explanations for this is that it once snowed here on May 15th, the day of the local Jour de pardon ("Festival of Reconciliation"). According to another opinion, the name is based on a translation error from Breton, the actual name is Notre-Dame de l'Angoisse , "Our Lady of Fear". A third theory says that the name was chosen out of veneration based on the basilica Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome , which is also nicknamed " Our Lady of the Snow " ( Italian : Santa Maria della Neve ).
The Cross of Kernoac'h ( Croix de Kernoac'h ) , which was renovated in 2004, stands in the forecourt of the chapel .
On July 8, 1792, three years after the beginning of the revolution , Alain Nédelec , who had been elected justice of the peace two years earlier, gathered a hundred armed peasants here. Nédelec and his followers did not want to submit to the laws of the revolutionaries. They were defeated in a bloody battle with the National Guard on July 9, 1792 ; Nédelec was captured, tried in Kemper , sentenced and guillotine on March 20, 1793 .
About three hundred meters from the Notre-Dame chapel there is a spring that is said to have healing properties. The water from the spring is said to help especially children who learned to walk late.
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Notes and evidence
- ↑ See Notre-Dame-des-Neiges - Kerbader
- ↑ So Pastor Gaonac'h, priest of the parish of Fouesnant 2009, quoted in Chapelle de Kerbader: De nouveaux vitraux on the parish's homepage
- ↑ Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Fouesnant ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Croix de Kernoac'h is mentioned in Jean René Canevet's collection of war memories La guerre 1939-1945 à Fouesnant .
Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '35.9 " N , 4 ° 1' 20.7" W.