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Pilgrims enroute 2011. The Chartres pilgrimage (French: pèlerinage de Chartres), also known in French as the pèlerinage de Chrétienté (English: pilgrimage of Christendom), is an annual pilgrimage from Notre-Dame de Paris to Notre-Dame de Chartres occurring around the Christian feast of Pentecost, organized by Notre-Dame de Chrétienté (English: Our Lady of Christendom), a Catholic lay non ...
One starting point is at the Tour St Jacques in Paris and then on to Orléans-Tours or Chartres-Tours. From Tours, the route passes through Poitiers and Bordeaux, the forest at Les Landes before connecting to the Camino Francés, the national trail GR 65, near Ostabat, [13] shortly before Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port or to the Camino de la Costa in ...
The Camino de Santiago (Latin: Peregrinatio Compostellana, lit. ' Pilgrimage of Compostela '; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), [1] or the Way of St. James in English, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.
Alice Muriel Willamson, in her 1905 travel romance novel "The Princess Passes" chapter 28, had her characters visit the recently abandoned monastery, seeing and describing the cells, gardens, and kitchen ware still in place, and described the empty place as a body without a soul.
1972: Opening of the first section, La Folie Bessin - Thivars, is 68 km (A 10 and A 11). 1975: Opening of the section Chartres to La Ferté-Bernard. 1978: Opening of the section La Ferté-Bernard to Le Mans.
Calétric or Colétric of Chartres was a 6th-century French bishop and saint. His name is also spelled as Caletricus, Chaletricus or Chalactericus (in Venantius Fortunatus) whilst in French, it appears in the popular forms of Caltry or Calais, probably caused by the confusion with the abbot-saint of Le Maine. His feast day is on 4 September. [1]
Val-de-Grâce Abbey (Abbaye royale Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce), nuns, Diocese of Paris (1621–1790; this was the community of Val-de-Grâce Priory, Bièvres, which was moved to Paris and elevated to an abbey by Anne of Austria) (5th arrondissement, Paris) [92]
Chartres is one of the most important market towns in the region of Beauce (known as "the granary of France"). Historically, game pies and other delicacies of Chartres were well known, and the industries also included flour-milling, brewing, distilling, iron-founding, leather manufacture, perfumes, dyeing, stained glass, billiard requisites and ...