Sainte-Anne-d'Auray

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Sainte-Anne-d'Auray
Santez-Anna-Wened
Coat of arms of Sainte-Anne-d'Auray
Sainte-Anne-d'Auray (France)
Sainte-Anne-d'Auray
region Brittany
Department Morbihan
Arrondissement Lorient
Canton Auray
Community association Auray Quiberon Terre Atlantique
Coordinates 47 ° 42 ′  N , 2 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′  N , 2 ° 57 ′  W
height 36-57 m
surface 4.97 km 2
Residents 2,708 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 545 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 56400
INSEE code 56263
Website sainte-anne-auray.com

Sainte-Anne basilica

Sainte-Anne-d'Auray ( Breton Santez Anna Wened , so Sainte-Anne-de Vannes ) is a commune with 2,708 inhabitants (1 January 2017) in the Morbihan department in the region of Brittany . The place of pilgrimage belongs to the Arrondissement of Lorient and the canton of Auray .

Geography, location and connection

The place is six kilometers northeast of Auray and 16 kilometers northwest of Vannes on the route départementale D 19. The river Auray , still called Loc'h , flows along the western border of Saint-Anne d'Auray. Neighboring communities are (clockwise, starting in the southwest) Auray, Brech , Plumergat , Meriadec and Pluneret . The Sainte-Anne-d'Auray train station is in the municipality of the latter. This was opened in 1862 for the transport of pilgrims on the Savenay – Landerneau railway line, which had been expanded to two lanes since 1900 ; Nowadays (2011) only regional trains of the TER Bretagne stop there , but no more TGV .

history

As early as the early Middle Ages (7th / 8th century) the name Keranna (Anna's house ) is said to have been in use for the small settlement at that time in the county of Vannes , which probably referred to a Celtic cult of Anne . The modern Christian history of Sainte-Anne-d'Auray began, however, with the testimony that a local farmer named Yvon or Yves Nicolazic gave to a cleric from Pluneret and later to the Bishop of Vannes : it was on July 25, 1624 - according to another source, not until March 1625 - in a dream St. Anne , mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus , appeared and had him with the words "God wants me to be worshiped here" ("Dieu veut que je sois honorée ici" ) asked to build a chapel on his field; then he dug up a small wooden statue of Anna there. This field, known as Bocenno , was the destination of numerous devout Catholics in the same year , the chapel was completed in 1625. Adjacent, Carmelites built a monastery in the 17th century , today a monument historique . Sainte-Anne was not only at the center of popular Breton piety : Louis XIII. and Anna of Austria are said to have owed the birth of an heir to the throne in 1638 to a relic from there; Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine , sent her chamberlain to Sainte-Anne-d'Auray in 1639 to thank her for her "miraculous healing"; and in 1644 Henrietta Maria , Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, fled there with her sons before the Civil War .

In the 19th century a basilica was built on the field . An independent parish was only created in 1937 through a spin-off; and the secular church was even "cut out" of Pluneret in early 1950. Since 1625, Sainte-Anne has become the most important place of pilgrimage in Brittany, which every " Annentag " ( July 26th ) is the destination of an average of up to 30,000 pilgrims who ask for forgiveness there (pardon de Sainte Anne) , and about ten times so many tourists there is. In September 1996, John Paul II was the first Pope to visit the place and held a service in front of well over 100,000 people on the place Jean-Paul II, which was newly created for the occasion .

Population development
year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007
Residents 1,335 1.405 1,395 1,512 1,630 1,844 2.175

Attractions

World War Memorial

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Sainte-Anne-d'Auray

  • Basilica Sainte Anne (1872, architect: Desperthes), therein a. a. the graves of Nikolazic and Pierre de Keriolet, a noble Huguenot who converted to Catholicism, and the pilgrimage stairs (scala sancta)
  • “Miraculous spring” ( fontaine miraculeuse , 17th century), place of the apparition of the saints
  • Carmelite monastery (17th century), contains three museums and the church treasury
  • Saint Anne and Saint Mary statue
  • Nicolazic farmhouse
  • Memorial to the dead of the First World War
  • Wax museum

Town twinning

There is a partnership with the English community of Camborne ( Cornwall ).

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Morbihan. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-84234-009-4 , pp. 96-99.

Evidence and Notes

  1. ↑ see this page ( Memento from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Joël Cornette: Histoire de la Bretagne et des Bretons. Seuil, Paris 2005, ISBN 978-2-7578-0995-2 , Volume 1, p. 560; in one reference there is even talk of 1623.
  3. ^ Joseph Chardronnet: Histoire de Bretagne. Naissance et vie d'une nation. Nouvelles Éditions Latines, Paris 1965 6. , p. 116
  4. ^ Joël Cornette: Histoire de la Bretagne et des Bretons. Seuil, Paris 2005, ISBN 978-2-7578-0995-2 , Volume 1, p. 562
  5. ^ Wilfried Krusekopf / Eberhard Homann: Bretagne. Reise Know-how, Bielefeld 2010 8th , ISBN 978-3-8317-1945-7 , p. 496
  6. ↑ according to INSEE ( memento of November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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