#Saint Guénolé

[guilbertjj]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Notre-Dame-de-la-Joie chapel in Saint-Guénolé, Brittany region of France

French vintage postcard

[almanach2023]

Aujourd'hui, vendredi 3 mars, nous fêtons Saint Guénolé.

SAINT DU JOUR

. Guénolé, du breton gwen, "pur" . Prénoms dérivés : Gwenn(e), Guenael . Les Guénolé sont actifs . Saint-Guénolé (+530). Disciple de S. Budoc, il fonde le monastère de Landevennec près de Brest et en devient le Père Abbé. . Sainte-Catherine-Drexel (1858-1955). Originaire d'une riche famille de Philadelphie (USA), cette jeune femme blanche prend le parti des Noirs dont les conditions de vie la scandalisent. Pour leur venir en aide, elle crée la congrégation des Soeurs du Très Saint Sacrement. Canonisée par Jean-Paul II. Nous fêtons également les : Arthellaïs - Astère - Astéria - Astérie - Astérine - Astérix - Athénaïs - Cunégonde - Gervin - Gervina - Gervine - Gerwin - Guénolé - Guignolet - Guingalois - Gwenola - Gwenolé - Kinga - Liberatus - Marin - Marino Toutes les infos sur les Saints du jour https://tinyurl.com/wkzm328

FETE DU JOUR

Ils nous ont quittés un 3 mars :

3 mars 1996 : Marguerite Duras, romancière française (4 avril 1914) 3 mars 1996 : Léo Malet, écrivain français (7 mars 1909) 3 mars 1983 : Georges Remi dit Hergé, auteur de bande dessinée des aventures de Tintin et Milou belge (22 mai 1907)

Ils sont nés le 3 mars :

3 mars 1997 : Camila Cabello, née Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao, chanteuse et actrice cubano-américaine 3 mars 1982 : Jessica Timberlake, Jessica Biel, née Jessica Claire Biel, actrice, productrice et réalisatrice américaine 3 mars 1977 : Ronan Keating, né Ronan Patrick John Keating, chanteur de pop irlandais 3 mars 1973 : Charles-Philippe d'Orléans, né Charles Philippe Marie Louis d’Orléans, « duc d’Anjou », membre de la Maison d'Orléans, « grand maître » de l’une des deux branches de l’« ordre de Saint-Lazare ». En 2006, il a participé à une émission de télé-réalité quotidienne, Je suis une célébrité, sortez-moi de là !. 3 mars 1970 : Julie Bowen, née Julia Bowen Luetkemeyer, actrice américaine 3 mars 1964 : Laura Harring, née Laura Elena Herring, actrice américano-mexicaine 3 mars 1939 : Ariane Mnouchkine, metteuse en scène de théâtre et animatrice de la troupe qu'elle a fondée en 1964, le Théâtre du Soleil

Toutes les naissances du jour https://tinyurl.com/msmk5e22

Fêtes, Célébrations, événements du jour 3 mars : Journée mondiale de la vie sauvage (A/RES/68/205) (ONU) CITATION DU JOUR

Citation du jour : Il n'a même pas le courage des idées des autres. Oscar WILDE.

Citation du jour : La maladie n'est jamais une cause. La maladie est une réponse, une pauvre réponse que l'on invente à une souffrance. Christian Bobin

Toutes les citations du jour https://tinyurl.com/payaj4pz

Nous sommes le 62ème jour de l'année il reste 303 jours avant le 31 décembre. Semaine 09.

Beau vendredi à tous.

Source : https://www.almanach-jour.com/almanach/index.php

[oldsardens]

Alfred Wahlberg - Harbor Scene at Saint Guénolé

[alain-keler]

Dimanche 11 Août 2024.

Il y a eu aujourd’hui deux centres du monde, le stade de France à Paris avec la cérémonie de clôture des jeux olympiques, mais aussi à Batz sur Mer, moins dans la lumière des médias mais avec la lumière du bord de mer, le Pardon de Saint Guénolé et le défilé de la noce paludière. Musique, foule, sourires, applaudissements, danses. 

What else , quoi d’autre!

[derniererondeavantlanuit-blog]

L'abbaye Saint-Guénolé de Landévennec

[mybluewindow]

Théodore Jules Guédy - "View of Saint-Guénolé, Brittany"

[flo88thx]

Les superbes têtes de dragons sur les poutres de la chapelle Saint Guénolé, peinte de main de maître par Michel.

Raphael. 25/08/2024

[detournementsmineurs]

"Bigoudènes devant la Tour Carrée, Saint-Guénolé, Penmarc'h" gravure d'Ernest Guérin (circa 1930-40) à l'exposition "Ernest Guérin (1887-1952) – Peintre et Enlumineur Breton" au Musée du Faouët, Bretagne, août 2024.

[cfred-ecards]

Bonne fête Guénolé ! Carte virtuelle animée Saint Guénolé #fete #abonnez...

[guilbertjj]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Seaweed harvest in Saint-Guénolé, Brittany region of France

French vintage postcard

[richmond-rex]

I found out that other twenty-three (23) Breton saints were worshipped in England in the Middle Ages*. Most of them, however, had their cults introduced by King Æthelstan, who was a friend to exiles from Brittany (which had been conquered by the Vikings at the time). He distributed multiple Breton relics to various monasteries across England but the devotion to these Breton saints flourished mainly in Winchester where the royal court sat in the 10th century, and where this king and his family resided more often.

*Including St. Brenwalatr, St Cadroc, St Congar, St Conogan, St Corentin, St Gildas, St Gudual, St Guenaël, St Guénoc, St Guénolé, St Guethenoc, St Guigenoc, St Ivy, St Jean de Beverley, St Jupoc/Josse, St Magloire, St Malo, St Melaines, St Meloir, St Patern, St Petroc/Perreux, St Samson and St Tudual/Tugdual/Tutwal. Their names are found in calendars and liturgical books, in church dedications and in relic lists and were compiled in: 'Notes sur le culte des Saints bretons en Angleterre: Annales de Bretagne 35(4)', Gougaud Louis (1921)'.

Sometime ago @beardofkamenev mentioned Henry VII's relationship with one particular Welsh saint, Saint Armel/Armagill. Although not one of the patron saints Henry VII mentioned in his last will, there's a fascinating aspect about what links those two together:

It's worth pointing out that St Armel was a relatively unknown saint in England before Henry VII popularised his cult: a rubric found in Prince Henry’s prayer roll (pictured above) explains that the saint’s ‘life and legende’ was ‘brought out of Britayne at the ynstans off the kynge owre sovereyn lord Harry the seventh.’ There are those who assign the spread of his cult to politically astute courtiers seeking favour with Henry VII, but we cannot say every image of St Armel in the country had a political meaning behind it: ‘The king’s devotion to the saint brought him back into the list of suitable saints for commemoration’ as one scholar points out, ‘that is all.’

Yet beyond the similarities shared with his life, St Armel’s iconography might have held a range of political meanings for Henry VII. Armel was not merely a priest — he was often represented wearing armour under his chasuble, gauntlets on his hands and sabatons and spurs on his feet, possibly a warrior saint as much St Maurice or St George. According to the legend, Armel took up his sword against the Saxon invaders in Wales over the Christian cause ('Armel therefore resolved to be a soldier, but a soldier of Jesus Christ'). It has been noted that the ordaining of bishops shared symbolic similarities with the crowning of kings: Armel’s saintly status as a warrior might have appealed to Henry VII’s own conception of sacred and ordained kingship.

The saint was often represented holding a maniple or a stole in his right hand with which he controlled the dragon he had subdued according to the legend. Perhaps a puzzling aspect of Armel’s iconography, then, would be his dominion over the dragon. The dragon was an important Welsh symbol, specially brought under the spotlight in Tudor England following Henry VII's adoption of the Red Dragon of Cadwaladr as his personal symbol. However, there are significant differences in the representation of Armel’s dragon in Brittany and France compared with the depictions of this saint found in Wales and England.

In the first case, Armel’s dragon was represented as a large, fierce and aggressive creature. In the case of Wales and England, the dragon was depicted as small and submissive. As exemplified by the statute placed in Henry VII's Lady Chapel at Westminster (pictured above), the dragon is so small Armel is able to rest his foot on it: the beast is turned into a pet. In the words of Madeleine Gray, it was an important iconographic change:

This may have been an attempt to negotiate the rather difficult situation in which Henry found himself as a monarch whose emblem was the dragon ruling over a country whose patron saint was the dragon-slaying St George. On the one hand, the saint mutates from being a dragon-slayer to a dragon-friend. On the other hand, the small, tamed dragons of Merevale, Torbryan and Romsey are a reassurance to the English that Henry has the Welsh under control, while they also reassure the Welsh that he regards them as his loyal allies.

Like @beardofkamenev I recommend Madeleine Grey’s chapter “Politics, Power and Piety: The Cult of St Armel in Early Tudor England and Wales” in Rewriting Holiness: Reconfiguring Vitae, Re-signifying Cults. Kings College London Medieval Studies; vol xxv (2017).

1. Illustration of St Armel in a prayer roll belonging to Prince Henry, later Henry VIII (BL Add MS 88929) | 2. Plaster cast of St Armel, from Henry VII’s Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey, ca. 1505 (V&A Musem Collection)

[georges-flayols]

Rochers Bretagne

[alain-keler]

Dimanche 13 août 2023

Batz sur Mer fête le 104ème Pardon de Saint Guénolé.

Beaucoup de monde pour cette fête bretonne traditionnelle, soleil au rendez-vous, très bonne ambiance. Musique, danses, défilé, moules frites, crêpes, galettes, huitres. 

Batz est encore un petit village, coincé entre Le Pouliguen et Le Croisic, plutôt familial. Les gens ne viennent pas ici pour se faire voir, mais pour voir ce si beau petit village et sa côte ciselée comme une pierre précieuse.

[yannjo]

Oups!! with my friend Guillaume.