Chapelle Saint-Gildas de Bieuzy

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The Saint-Gildas Chapel is a Catholic church in the municipality of Bieuzy, Morbihan.

History: According to legend, the Welsh missionary Saint Gildas de Rhuys and his disciple Saint Bieuzy retired in 538 in a cave located on the banks of the Blavet in the last meander before the hill of Castennec to the south near Bieuzy, a promontory once occupied by a Gallic oppidum and then the Roman vicus of Sulim where was worshipped a pagan idol, the statue of Isis or Venus. Despite their cenobitic life, the surrounding populations flocked to this hermitage under the rock and monks came from Rhuys Abbey to find their Abbé Gildas. This place would then have been converted into a double oratory on which was built in the 15th century a chapel that became the priory of the Roche-sur-Blavet, dependent on the abbey of Rhuys until the French Revolution. The current semi-troglodytic chapel has been historically attested only since the 15th century. It was heavily remodeled in the 19th century, including the south wall that was rebuilt in 1810 and the chapel that was extended westward in 1837 to form a second body, perhaps the sacristy....