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Religious Site Attractions In Pays de la Loire

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Pays de la Loire is one of the 18 regions of France. It is one of the regions created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful of so-called balancing metropolises ¹.
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Religious Site Attractions In Pays de la Loire

  • 2. The Basilica of Our Lady of Pontmain Pontmain
    Our Lady of Sorrows , Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows , and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life. As Mater Dolorosa, it is also a key subject for Marian art in the Catholic Church. The Seven Sorrows of Mary are a popular Roman Catholic devotion. In common religious Catholic imagery, the Virgin Mary is portrayed in a sorrowful and lacrimating affect, with seven long knives or daggers piercing her heart, often bleeding. Devotional prayers that consist of meditation began to elaborate on her Seven Sorrows based on the prophecy of Simeon. Common examples of piety under this title are Servite rosary, or the Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows ...
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  • 5. Chapelle Notre Dame la Blanche Guerande
    La Chapelle-Launay is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
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  • 7. Cathedrale de Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul Nantes
    Nantes Cathedral, or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes , is a Roman Catholic church located in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The cathedral is in the Gothic architectural tradition. Construction of the church began in 1434, on the site of a Romanesque cathedral, and took 457 years to finish, finally reaching completion in 1891. It has been listed since 1862 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.
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  • 9. Cathedrale St-Maurice Angers
    The Saint Maurice Cathedral of Angers is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Angers in Angers, France. Built between the 11th and 16th Centuries, It was classified in 1862 as a national monument of France for its mixture of Romanesque and Gothic architectural styles, especially the Angevin Gothic style, and for the stained glass windows, including the transept's window of Saint Julian, considered to be a masterpiece of French 13th century glasswork.
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  • 11. Eglise Notre-Dame de Clisson Clisson
    Église Notre Dame is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Clisson, France. It was founded by Olivier V de Clisson in the 14th–15th century. The church was razed during the War in the Vendée, and later renovated under the Empire in the early 19th century. It was completely demolished and rebuilt in 1887–88 by Nantais architect René Ménard.
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  • 12. Eglise Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Port Nantes
    This article includes information translated from the Wikipedia article « fr:Église Notre-Dame de Bon-Port »Notre-Dame de Bon-Port is a Roman Catholic basilica located in Nantes, France. The church was constructed in 1846 by the architects Seheult and Joseph-Fleury Chenantais. Its official name is Église de Saint-Louis , though it is rarely known by this name.
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  • 14. Saint Peter's Abbey of Solesmes Solesmes
    Solesmes Abbey or St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes , famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Guéranger after the French Revolution. The current abbot is the Right Reverend Dom Philippe Dupont, O.S.B.
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