Chapelle Saint-Colomban de Carnac

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The chapel Saint-Colomban is located in the hamlet of the same name, in Carnac in Morbihan.

The chapel was built at the end of the 16th century. The dating is not absolute: Roger Frey places it around 1575, but other sources move it for fifteen years, under the rectorate of René de Larlan (1585-1600). This chapel is dedicated to the Irish monk Colomban de Luxeuil who reportedly landed in the Carnacasian region around 610. His ministry made him a patron saint of the weak mind, which explains the customs — still present at the beginning of the twentieth century — recounted by Zacharie Le Rouzic:

" One goes there to have spirit, although the inhabitants of the country have little. At the bottom of the chapel is the hole of the spirit, in which today, one leaves lime and in which the poor of mind had to plunge the head. »

At the same time as the building of the chapel, was built about 330 m away from the bird, the fountain Saint-Colomban (classified MH in 1978) being part of the same cultural ensemble. The chapel has been listed as historic monuments since 13 February 1928.