Browsing Gallery: Mont-St-Michel

Mont St. Michel is on the north coast of France, near the border of Brittany and Normandy, and home to centuries of tradition. A Benedictine Abbey, in the Diocese of Avranches, Normandy, France. It is unquestionably the finest example both of French medieval architecture and of a fortified abbey. The buildings of the monastery are piled round a conical mass of rock which rises abruptly out of the waters of the Atlantic to the height of 300 feet, on the summit of which stands the great church. This rock is nearly a mile from the shore, but in 1880 a causeway was built across the dangerous quicksand that occupies this space and is exposed at low water, so that there is now no danger in approaching the abbey. The monastery was founded about the year 708 by St. Aubert, Bishop of Avranches, and according to the legend, by direct command of the Archangel Michael himself, who appeared to the bishop in a dream on three separate occasions.

Gallery Images

ID	Name	Created	Hits	User	Filesize
993	P9140713	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	144	John Crossno	39.70 Kb
994	P9140714	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	125	John Crossno	44.20 Kb
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996	P9140716	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	120	John Crossno	44.46 Kb
997	P9140717	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	117	John Crossno	31.56 Kb
998	P9140718	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	117	John Crossno	40.64 Kb
999	P9140719	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	126	John Crossno	48.82 Kb
1000	P9140720	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	125	John Crossno	60.59 Kb
1001	P9140721	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	111	John Crossno	50.77 Kb
1002	P9140722	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	100	John Crossno	39.91 Kb
1003	P9140723	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	92	John Crossno	48.18 Kb
1004	P9140724	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	97	John Crossno	49.70 Kb
1005	P9140725	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	108	John Crossno	67.39 Kb
1006	P9140726	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	91	John Crossno	43.39 Kb
1007	P9140727	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	93	John Crossno	52.15 Kb
1008	P9140728	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	96	John Crossno	50.77 Kb
1009	P9140729	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	97	John Crossno	45.20 Kb
1010	P9140730	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	119	John Crossno	22.27 Kb
1011	P9140731	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	99	John Crossno	59.78 Kb
1012	P9140732	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	111	John Crossno	20.57 Kb
1013	P9140733	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	103	John Crossno	23.22 Kb
1014	P9140734	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	98	John Crossno	34.08 Kb
1015	P9140735	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	101	John Crossno	59.92 Kb
1016	P9140736	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	100	John Crossno	45.12 Kb
1017	P9140737	Sat 17 of Jan., 2009 23:21 MST	107	John Crossno	71.64 Kb

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