In the Footsteps of Montfort
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CONTENTS Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 Maps .............................................................................................................. 2 Addresses and Telephone numbers............................................................... 2 Maison Natale, Montfort-sur-Meu: ........................................................... 2 Saint-Esprit (SMM), St Laurent-sur-Sèvre: .............................................. 2 Béthanie (FDLS), St Laurent-sur-Sèvre: .................................................. 2 Hôtellerie, Pontchâteau: contact the Sisters: ............................................ 3 Northern Area (based on Montfort-sur-Meu) ................................................... 4 Montfort-sur-Meu ......................................................................................... 4 The "Maison Natale" ................................................................................ 4 The town of Montfort-sur-Meu ................................................................. 7 La Bachelleraye ........................................................................................ 9 Heurtebize, La Massonaye, and Saint-Lazare ........................................... 9 Couascavre and the Abbaye St-Jacques .................................................. 12 Iffendic, Le Bois Marquer, Boucquidy ....................................................... 14 Iffendic .................................................................................................... 14 Le Bois Marquer ..................................................................................... 14 Boucquidy ............................................................................................... 15 Rennes and the Pont de Cesson .................................................................. 17 Rennes ..................................................................................................... 17 St Thomas College - Church of Toussaints ........................................ 18 Church of Saint-Sauveur and Shrine of N.D. des Miracles ................ 19 Pont de Cesson ........................................................................................ 20 Bécherel, Mont Saint-Michel and Dinan .................................................... 22 Bécherel .................................................................................................. 22 Mont Saint-Michel .................................................................................. 22 Dinan ....................................................................................................... 25 Château de la Garaye .............................................................................. 26 The La Chèze Region.................................................................................. 28 La Trinité-Porhoët ................................................................................... 28 Plumieux ................................................................................................. 29 La Chèze - Chapel of Notre Dame de Pitié ............................................. 29 La Ferrière ............................................................................................... 31 Pontchâteau and Nantes Area ......................................................................... 33 Pontchâteau ................................................................................................. 33 Le Calvaire de Pontchâteau .................................................................... 34 Campbon ................................................................................................. 36 Crossac .................................................................................................... 36 Sainte Reine de Bretagne ........................................................................ 37 St Molf .................................................................................................... 37 Nantes ......................................................................................................... 38 St Clément ............................................................................................... 38 Convent of the Visitation ........................................................................ 38 La Grande Providence............................................................................. 38 St Donatien ............................................................................................. 39 St Similien ............................................................................................... 39 La Cour Catuit (Hospital for Incurables) ................................................ 40 Place du Sanitat ....................................................................................... 40 Rue Grande Biesse and Petite Biesse ..................................................... 41 The Nantes Region ...................................................................................... 42 St Julien-de-Concelles ............................................................................ 42 Vallet ....................................................................................................... 42 St Christophe-la-Couperie, La Boissière-du-Doré, and La Remaudière 42 Landemont .............................................................................................. 42 La Chevrolière ........................................................................................ 44 Vertou ..................................................................................................... 44 St Fiacre - Châteauthébaud ..................................................................... 44 Bouguenais .............................................................................................. 44 Southern Area (based on St Laurent-sur-Sèvre) ............................................. 47 Saint Laurent-sur-Sèvre (Tomb of St. Louis Marie) ................................... 47 St Louis Marie's St Laurent .................................................................... 47 The St Laurent of the first Montfortians ................................................. 49 Other things of interest in St Laurent ..................................................... 49 The neighbourhood of St Laurent ............................................................... 50 La Séguinière .......................................................................................... 50 Roussay ................................................................................................... 51 Saint Amand-sur-Sèvre ........................................................................... 52 Poitiers ........................................................................................................ 53 The Hôpital Général................................................................................ 54 Saint Porchaire ........................................................................................ 55 Maison des Pénitentes, 89 rue des Feuillants ......................................... 56 The Baptistery of St. Jean ....................................................................... 56 Sainte Radegonde.................................................................................... 56 The Pont Joubert ..................................................................................... 56 Montbernage ........................................................................................... 57 Le Jardin des quatre figures .................................................................... 58 La Rochelle ................................................................................................. 60 Saint Éloi ................................................................................................. 60 Le Petit Plessis ........................................................................................ 61 Porte Royale ............................................................................................ 61 The Hôpital Saint-Louis .......................................................................... 62 The Port and Saint-Sauveur .................................................................... 62 Rue de la Rochelle .................................................................................. 63 The Cathedral .......................................................................................... 63 Rue Gargoulleau - Évêché ...................................................................... 64 The Hôpital Auffrédy .............................................................................. 64 Rue Rambaud and Rue des Saintes Claires ............................................ 65 The chapel of the Sisters of Providence ................................................. 65 Saint-Pompain, Mervent, Vouvant ............................................................. 69 Saint-Pompain ......................................................................................... 69 Mervent - Fr de Montfort's Grotto .......................................................... 72 Vouvant ................................................................................................... 74 Notre-Dame des Ardilliers and Fontevrault ................................................ 75 Notre-Dame des Ardilliers .....................................................................