"calvaires Bretons " De Messaline

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Calvaires Bretons​

Calvaries are monuments sculpted in granite. Always present is Christ on the Cross. Then was added the Virgin MAry and Saint John and usually the cross had a double-face with usually the Piety on the back. In the biggest Calvaries the story of Christ is told in scenes from the Announciation, until the Resurrection, passing through all the passages of the Passion. In the peaceful countryside of Brittany you find Parish Enclosures which comprehend the church, the cemetery, a chapel and these concrections of scultures instructing people on the Holy Story. Out of the gospel's tradition we find the soldiers in XVI-XVII century dresses, sometimes characterized with well known faces of the time. Another particular piece is the Descent to Hell, where usually is put Katell Gollet, the anti-Magdalen, a prostitute who never redeemed and is represented tormented by devils. The two robbers are often at the sides of the Cross and they have always on top the Angel (good robber) and the Devil (bad robber) with their solus in the arms.

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....and Messaline have tried some of them......​

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In first, a little one...​

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....Nice? ​

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[admihoek]

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Calvaires Bretons​

Calvaries are monuments sculpted in granite. Always present is Christ on the Cross. Then was added the Virgin MAry and Saint John and usually the cross had a double-face with usually the Piety on the back. In the biggest Calvaries the story of Christ is told in scenes from the Announciation, until the Resurrection, passing through all the passages of the Passion. In the peaceful countryside of Brittany you find Parish Enclosures which comprehend the church, the cemetery, a chapel and these concrections of scultures instructing people on the Holy Story. Out of the gospel's tradition we find the soldiers in XVI-XVII century dresses, sometimes characterized with well known faces of the time. Another particular piece is the Descent to Hell, where usually is put Katell Gollet, the anti-Magdalen, a prostitute who never redeemed and is represented tormented by devils. The two robbers are often at the sides of the Cross and they have always on top the Angel (good robber) and the Devil (bad robber) with their solus in the arms.

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....and Messaline have tried some of them......​

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In first, a little one...​

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View attachment 31765 ....Nice? ​

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especially a little one. In what place found you that virgincross?

 

[messaline]

That my secret garden....

 

[admihoek]

That my secret garden....

this is mine

 

[messaline]

You dont amaze me.....Pssssssssssss, glou-glou!

 

[Edexl]

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Calvaires Bretons​

Calvaries are monuments sculpted in granite. Always present is Christ on the Cross. Then was added the Virgin MAry and Saint John and usually the cross had a double-face with usually the Piety on the back. In the biggest Calvaries the story of Christ is told in scenes from the Announciation, until the Resurrection, passing through all the passages of the Passion. In the peaceful countryside of Brittany you find Parish Enclosures which comprehend the church, the cemetery, a chapel and these concrections of scultures instructing people on the Holy Story. Out of the gospel's tradition we find the soldiers in XVI-XVII century dresses, sometimes characterized with well known faces of the time. Another particular piece is the Descent to Hell, where usually is put Katell Gollet, the anti-Magdalen, a prostitute who never redeemed and is represented tormented by devils. The two robbers are often at the sides of the Cross and they have always on top the Angel (good robber) and the Devil (bad robber) with their solus in the arms.

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....and Messaline have tried some of them......​

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In first, a little one...​

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Really nice! Thanks! I remember seeing some of the Breton calvaires years ago, excuse for another holiday in Brittany me thinks!Thanks for the informative and edifying post! I would love to photograph some of the calvaires someday soon!

 

[thehangingtree]

I am away a half day and this is what goes on?!?!

There is trouble coming! Trouble, I tell you! First, WAITRESS! Admi is paying for his own...

as for Messa... It is late but a night thinking may be good medicine...

eert

 

[messaline]

CALVAIRES​

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Stone's laceworks​

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Expanding on the sky​

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Attracting my sight​

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Like a cue !​

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Time for me to meet you,​

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Time for me to mix with you, ​

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Feeling your cold stone in my back, ​

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Your millenary stone, braving centuries, ​

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Changing me in an eternal statue of...​

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Crucified Woman​

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Messaline-MAY - 21/2012 ​

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[sebastian]

I must book a trip to France to see these Calvaires, of course the added incentive would be to see Messaline trying them out.​

 

[messaline]

I must book a trip to France to see these Calvaires, of course the added incentive would be to see Messaline trying them out.​

When you'll be in France (Bretagne), search well: perhaps you'll get the chance to see her....

 

[messaline]

Messaline wanted to try a more sophistical "calvaire"....​

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Whooooo! It's high !​

 

[messaline]

Well framed ! Her father and her mother?​

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"Resquiescat in Pace " ​

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[Fantasmo]

Well framed ! Her father and her mother?​

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"Resquiescat in Pace " ​

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And where is her sedile...errr sister ?

 

[messaline]

And where is her sedile...errr sister ?

Fantasmo, do you know this "man": it's "ankou" , "the dead " in Bretagne....

When you see him, get out because he may carry you to the cimetery !​

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[Fantasmo]

When you see him, get out because he may carry you to the cimetery !​

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If it's after having seen you ride the sedile... it's all fine

 

[messaline]

It will be soon! Sir Nob is working about....

 

[PhilX]

Here are three crucifixes I photographed in France recently, they are all in different parts of the country. All the figures are life size.

 

[Edexl]

Not sure if I wont one at the bottom of my garden with the gnomes!
If it was Messaline that would be different,I would mop her brow!

 

[messaline]

Not sure if I wont one at the bottom of my garden with the gnomes!
If it was Messaline that would be different,I would mop her brow!

It could be possible, but get out your gnomes! I dont like: they will make me nightmares!
And, for winter, set me a blanket: it's cold in Wales....

 

[messaline]

And Messa was walking in Bretagne, searching new calvaires...

She viewed many of them ...​

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...too little !​

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...too frequented !​