Notre-Dame de Kerbader (French: Chapelle Notre-Dame de Kerbader; Breton: Chapel Itron-Varia Kerbader) is a chapel in the commune of Fouesnant, Brittany in northwest France.[1] The chapel is also known as "Our Lady of the Snows" (from the Breton Itron Varia an erc'h) or "Our Lady of Mercy" (Itron Varia an nec'h).[2] It was built on the site of an earlier church, between the 17th and 18th centuries, to a cruciform floorplan.[1]
In 1792, during the Fouesnant uprising against the revolutionary government of the Legislative Assembly, a group of armed farmers gathered at the church.[3][4] The group were defeated by the National Guard and its leader captured, tried and guillotined at Quimper in 1793.[3]
The building was renovated in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with new stained glass windows unveiled in 2009.[3] Next to the church stands a cross, Croix de Kernoac'h, which was renovated in 2004.[5] Also nearby is a holy well, La fontaine de Kerbader,[6] at which an annual pardon ceremony traditionally takes place during August.[7][8]
References edit
- ^ a b "Notre Dame de Kerbader" (PDF), Beg Meil - Un peu d'histoire (in French), retrieved 23 August 2023
- ^ "Site de Kerbader - La Chapelle". kerbader.org (in French). Retrieved 23 August 2023.
- ^ a b c "Chapelle de Kerbader : De nouveaux vitraux". fouesnant-les-ormeaux.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 19 December 2014.
- ^ Chassin, Charles-Louis (1892). "Soulèvement de Fouesnant". La Préparation de la Guerre de Vendée, 1789-1793. Tome 2 (in French). p. 521.
- ^ "Croix de Kernoac'h". Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne (in French). Retrieved 23 August 2023.
- ^ "La Fontaine de Kerbader" (PDF), Beg Meil - Un peu d'histoire (in French), retrieved 23 August 2023
- ^ "Pardon de Kerbader". begmeil.fr (in French). Retrieved 23 August 2023.
- ^ "La Fontaine de Notre-Dame des Neiges". Fontaines de France (in French). Retrieved 23 August 2023.
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