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SAINT JACQUES DE L’ACHIGAN, a post-village of Québec, co. of Montcalm, 13 miles N.N.W. of L'Assomption. It has a church, a convent, a brewery, &c. Pop. 800. [14] In 1912, the Village Municipality of Saint-Jacques-de-l'Achigan was created when it ceded from the parish municipality. Its name was shortened to Saint-Jacques in 1917, and 3 years ...
Tour Saint-Jacques (French: [tuʁ sɛ̃ʒak], 'Saint James's Tower') is a monument located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, on the Rive Droite.This 52-metre (171 ft) Flamboyant Gothic tower at the intersection of the Rue de Rivoli with Rue Nicolas-Flamel is all that remains of the former 16th-century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie ('Saint James of the Meat Market'), which ...
Saint-Jacques (the French name for Saint James) may refer to: Canada. Saint-Jacques, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Edmundston;
Gibsonville ("City of Roses") is a town in both Alamance and Guilford counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.Most of Gibsonville is situated in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point Combined Statistical Area and the eastern portion is in the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area, [5] encompassing all of Alamance County.
The Church of Saint-Jacques (French: Église Saint-Jacques d'Abbeville) was a former Roman Catholic neo-Gothic church located in Abbeville, France. The building, built from 1868 to 1876 on the site of a 12th-century church, gradually deteriorated due to lack of maintenance at the beginning of the 21st century.
In 1282, Saint-Jacques church was established as a parish by Guillaume de Flavacourt, Archbishop of Rouen. The north and south transepts date back to the second half of the11th century. The choir , nave , and aisles date from the 13th century, except for the vaults and the triforium of the nave, which date from the 14th century.
This chapel was the chapel of a pilgrims' hospice - dedicated to Saint James the Great, it gave its name to rue Saint-Jacques and to the French Dominicans, who became known as the 'Jacobins' after their main monastery. Major benefactions from Louis IX of France allowed the order to complete its church and build a dormitory and schools.
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