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Monument to John Steele, whose parachute caught on a church pinnacle on D-Day. Today, these events are commemorated by the Airborne Museum (Sainte-Mère-Église) in Place du 6 Juin in the centre of Ste-Mère-Église and in the village church where a parachute with an effigy of Private Steele in his Airborne uniform hangs from the steeple. [2]
The museum holds more than 10,000 items, including the CG-4 glider and the C-47 Skytrain, there is equipment used by generals James Gavin, Matthew Ridgway, J. Lawton Collins and John Steele's military decorations. The items on exhibit from World War II were used by paratroopers who jumped into Sainte-Mère-Église during the Battle of Normandy.
The Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (French: église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, pronounced [eɡliz sɛ̃t maʁi madlɛn]), or less formally, La Madeleine ([la madlɛn]), is a Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
Mary Magdalene's alleged skull, displayed at the basilica of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, in Southern France. Mary Magdalene's bone, displayed at La Madeleine, Paris. The relics of Mary Magdalene are a set of human remains that purportedly belonged to the Christian saint Mary Magdalene, one of the female followers of Jesus Christ.
La Madeleine, a parish in Faycelles in the Lot département; see Liberty Tree; La Madeleine, a village in Guérande in the Loire-Atlantique département; Madeleine (river), in eastern France; Col de la Madeleine, a high mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Savoie in France; Madeleine cemetery (Cimetière de la Madeleine), Paris, a ...
The Boulevard de la Madeleine (French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ də la madlɛn]) is one of the 11 original grands boulevards of Paris, France, a chain of roads running in a semicircle on the right bank of Paris where the city's defensive walls used to be located. The boulevard is named after the nearby Église de la Madeleine. ___
This building is inscrit au titre des monuments historiques de la France. It is indexed in the base Mérimée, a database of architectural heritage maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, under the reference PA00107347
Jane Frances de Chantal, the founder of the convent Detail from the Turgot map of Paris showing the area around the church in the 1730s with the church half a block from the Bastille fortress. The Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary was founded in 1610 by Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jane de Chantal in Annecy as a Catholic religious order ...