Chapelle Notre-Dame de Pitié de Lanvellec

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Notre-Dame-de-Pitié Chapel is a Marian chapel located in the village of Saint-Carré, 5 km from the municipality of Lanvellec in the French department of Côtes-d'Armor in Brittany.

This chapel replaces an ancient Freian chapel mentioned in the 12th century and ruined during the wars of the League. Its reconstruction was decided following three apparitions of the Virgin to Jean Bizien, a peasant of Lanvellec, around 1660. Built between 1695-1697, the chapel is in the shape of a Latin cross oriented to flat bedside, consisting of a single nave, a transept and a long choir of a sacristy. The bell tower and part of the nave, partially destroyed by lightning in 1875, were rebuilt three years later. The door opening at the base of the bell tower is surmounted by a loggia housing a statue of the Virgin, object of forgiveness at Pentecost. The interior features an 18th-century décor as well as a glazed vault and painted entrances in 1890. The building is surrounded by a square whose stairway enclosure is marked by a portal and two crosses. Outside the enclosure is a fountain of devotion built in 1700, at which...