2024

ST. YVES CHURCH

Religious buildings
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In a classical way, the parish paddock of the Roche-Mauritius includes a calvary, a church and a ossuary. While calvary is characterized by simplicity, church and calvary are beautiful examples of the Renaissance style of the country. In the church, rebuilt in the th century on a previous building, you can only admire the jubé. With polychrome wood and made by a morlaisien sculptor, it is the centrepiece. Representing a variety of local characters, apostles and saints, with many original reasons, it is even considered one of the most beautiful of Brittany. The sand retrace moments of daily life as well as biblical scenes. Carried out by local artists, ossuary is also a fine example of the religious architecture of modern times. In the stone, carved characters such as the Ankou (the death knight) are depicted in the form of a skeleton with a false. Some inscriptions carved in Latin remind the human condition.

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