Sainte-Anne-d'Auray
Sainte-Anne-d'Auray Santez-Anna-Wened |
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Morbihan | |
Arrondissement | Lorient | |
Canton | Auray | |
Community association | Auray Quiberon Terre Atlantique | |
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 | ||||||||
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year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | |
Residents | 1,335 | 1.405 | 1,395 | 1,512 | 1,630 | 1,844 | 2.175 |
Attractions
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
- ↑ see this page ( Memento from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ 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.
- ^ Joseph Chardronnet: Histoire de Bretagne. Naissance et vie d'une nation. Nouvelles Éditions Latines, Paris 1965 6. , p. 116
- ^ Joël Cornette: Histoire de la Bretagne et des Bretons. Seuil, Paris 2005, ISBN 978-2-7578-0995-2 , Volume 1, p. 562
- ^ Wilfried Krusekopf / Eberhard Homann: Bretagne. Reise Know-how, Bielefeld 2010 8th , ISBN 978-3-8317-1945-7 , p. 496
- ↑ according to INSEE ( memento of November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Commune of Sainte-Anne-d'Auray (French, English)
- Page about the basilica (English, French)