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"calvaires Bretons " De Messaline

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in France, they are all in different parts of the country.

Drive around France on the RNs and you will see them everywhere.

Large, small(ish) in various materials, by the roadside,
usually near junctions, but not always .

I've being going to F since 1988 and have yet to see one vandalised.
 
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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......

In first, a little one...

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Liked the whole article! Cruxmeister
 
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