Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Joie

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The Notre-Dame-de-la-Joie Chapel is a Catholic church displayed on a bank of the Atlantic Ocean, in the west of the commune of Penmarc'h, in Bigouden country, in the Finistère department, in Brittany.

Location: The chapel and its calvary are located in the west of the commune of Penmarc'h, rue de la Joie, on the GR 34, closest to the sea, between the ports of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Guénolé.

According to the knight of Fréminville, the place would be an ancient pagan site. The Notre-Dame-de-la-Joie chapel, Ti ar Werc'hez and Joa in Breton, was built in the late 15th century. His name is a testimony of gratitude to the Virgin: "This chapel, protected from the fury of the sea, is not marked by sadness and pain, but rather dedicated to joy and thanks. Joy of the shipwrecked who remained alive, thanks of others spared by death and shipwreck. » A wall is built to protect the chapel from the assaults of the ocean, a wall that must be repeated every 30 years. Thus, in April 1888, the sea passed over this work and broke it in several places. It's redone in November.