The Church Saint Jean Baptiste of Saint Jouan des Guérets !!

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We are in summer, and we have boundless beauties in my belle France and especially in my lovely Bretagne ! I set out again to new territories in my road warrior mode of always that took me to neighboring Ille et Vilaine dept 35, I found me new places in beautiful wonderful back country,. My idea was to see old and new so I came back , and of course, found me new places to share with the world ! Therefore, let me tell you about the Church Saint Jean Baptiste of Saint Jouan des Guérets !! Hope you enjoy the post as I.

Saint Jouan des Guérets Ch Saint Jean Baptiste front aug24

The town of Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets is 8 km from Saint Malo, 62 km from Rennes, and 155 km from my house, The town of Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets has three islands:l’île aux Moines, l’île Harbeau and l’île Chevret. The Île aux Moines (still nicknamed Notre-Dame Island) was until the 17C occupied by the monks of the Order of Saint-Antoine, Recollets and Carmes du Guildo. We also find on the island , the vestiges of a chapel of the 15C, rebuilt around 1703 and considered frairian in the 18C.

The Church Saint-Jean-Baptiste (St John the Baptist) of neo-Roman style, The old church dated mainly from the 16C, the Chapelle du Nord was built in 1737 and was dedicated to Notre-Dame-de-la-Délivrance very revered by the sailors. The current church was built in several campaigns: the bell tower dates around 1830-1840 while the rest of the church was built between 1861 and 1866,

The first ex-voto, is a procession model, “Ave Maria”, replica of a three masts from the Compagnie Bordes de Saint-Malo around the 1880s, when it was probably made by a carpenter navy. The Maria Ave shell is made up of assembled slats. The second model is a two-masted, probably of English origin, having regard to its name: the “pilgrim”. Finally, the third ex-voto is a schooner with three-masted Terre-Neuva, the “Charles-Edmond”.This schooner is the replica of a ship built in 1924 and armed for the big fishing until 1940, the year when It will be sunk in November off the Coubre by an English submarine.

Saint Jouan des Guérets Ch Saint Jean Baptiste chapel left aug24

Saint Jouan des Guérets Ch Saint Jean Baptiste ex voto boat and ship bell aug24

Even today, the Chapelle du Nord of the new church, devoted to Notre-Dame-de-la-Délivrance, continues to be a very-sued pilgrimage goal; the sailors are particularly coming to make wishes made at sea, and their many votive boats cover its walls. Reconstructed today, the church was blessed in 1873. It is a modern Romanesque style church, composed of three naves, transepts and apse with ambulatory, The interior especially produces a good effect and is quite richly ornamed. The master altar, in a sculpted white stone, is surmounted by a group representing the baptism of Our Lord by Saint John. In the northern transept is the new and pretty altar of Notre-Dame-de-la-Délivrance.

Saint Jouan des Guérets Ch Saint Jean Baptiste altar aug24

Saint Jouan des Guérets Ch Saint Jean Baptiste nave to altar aug24

Some of the other things to see here are the Chapelle Notre-Dame de l’Isle. The island formed by the course of the rance river, and called Île au Moines, sometimes Notre-Dame Island, The Malouinière de la Plussinais of the 18C, and the Saint-François-d’Assise Chapel of 1727, The Malouinière de Saint Élier, or Saint-Hélier, mid-18C. Also, about 18 manors, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, born in 1698 in Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets and died in Basel on July 27, 1759, was a philosopher, mathematician, physicist, astronomer and French naturalist from the 17-18C who contributed in particular to the dissemination of Newton’s theories outside England. In 1935, the international astronomical union gave the name of Maupertuis to a lunar crater.

A bit of history tell us that Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets, was founded it seems by Saint Budoc ( third bishop of Dol) in the 6C, and was first mentioned in the 13C. Its church depended in the 13C of the former bishopric of Saint-Malo. The lordship of Saint-Jouan belonged in the 17C to the Le Gobien family, then to the Arthur and Sioc’han family in the 18C. This lordship had a right of high justice.

The town of Saint Jouan des Guérets on its heritage : https://www.mairie-saintjouan.fr/decouvrir-visiter/presentation-de-la-commune.html

The Parish of Saint Malo on the churc of Saint Jouan des Guérets: https://www.paroisses-saintmalo.fr/eglise-saint-jouan-des-guerets/

There you go folks, all new for you and me in my blog, This is awesome and glad to do another road warrior trip into back country Bretagne, This is a new place in my map, to be enrich with architecture and history as I like it, A wonderful spots to see indeed, me think, Again, hope you enjoy this post on the Church Saint Jean Baptiste of Saint Jouan des Guérets !! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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