They go to conferences every year somewhere exotic and interesting. We had another memorable meal for our celebration.
After the meal, we viewed the cathedral of Orleans. We have seen so many cathedrals at this point, but each one takes one's breath away with its soaring beauty. Lola enjoys going into church also.
We had to laugh when we spied this chien. He had a scarf like all Frenchmen.
We went overnight to Mont St Michel which is an ancient abbey and church located on an island. You must time your entry with the tides.
"Wonder of the West", the Mont Saint-Michel stands at the heart of an immense bay invaded by the highest tides in Europe. At the request of the Archangel Michael, "chief of the celestial militia» Aubert, Bishop of Avranches built and consecrated a church on October 16 709. In 966, at the request of the Duke of Normandy, a community of Benedictines settled on the rock. The pre-Romanesque church was built before the year one thousand. In the eleventh century, the Romanesque abbey church was founded on a set of crypts at the tip of the rock and the first monastic buildings were constructed. In the thirteenth century, a gift of King Philip Augustus of France after the conquest of Normandy, construction was undertaken of the entire Gothic Wonder: two three-story buildings crowned by the cloister and the refectory. This great spiritual and intellectual home was one of the largest pilgrimages in the medieval West. For nearly a thousand years people came by roads called "Paradise Road".
At the summit is a soaring Gothic church, and hidden away is the jewel of it all–the small cloister–built delicately and enclosed for the life of prayer and solitude yet open to the spiritual sky and open to the angels.
Ron especially marveled at the construction in such a remote location. They certainly knew how to build things to last, unlike our modern approach.
No comments:
Post a Comment