Beautiful Mount Saint-Michel in Normandy, France
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| Mont Saint-Michel |
Mont Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal island and a commune in
Normandy, France. It is located approximately one kilometer off the country’s northwestern
coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches.
Some facts about Mont St-Michel
- Mont-Saint-Michel was a stronghold of Romano-Breton culture,
but the French ransacked it in the 6th or 7th century.
- In the 8th century, Mont Saint Michel was called Mont Tomb,
due to the fact that St. Michel appeared to St. Aubert, and he told St. Aubert
to build a church, but Auburt didn’t listen so St. Michel burned a hole in his
head with his finger.
- Mont-Saint-Michel was originally an abbey, but in the French
Revolution, the monks fled and the abbey was closed and changed into a prison.
- In 1067, after William of Normandy was crowned, he got a
small island west of Cornwall that he modeled after Mont-Saint-Michel and
called it St Michael’s mount of Penzance.
- In the Hundred Years’ war, the English tried to destroy
Mont-Saint-Michel but couldn’t because it was fortified.
