Basilique Notre-Dame d'Espérance de Saint-Brieuc

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The Notre-Dame-d'Espérance Basilica of Saint-Brieuc is a church to which the Catholic Church gives the status of minor basilica, built between 1856 and 1877 in Saint-Brieuc in the French department of Côtes-d'Armor.

History: On the current location of the basilica there was an oratory dating from the Middle Ages. It was built in thanks for a healing and dedicated to Saint Peter. The sick came kneeling in front. The oratory was destroyed in 1856 to give way to the current basilica. It was built a few months after the demolition of the former oratory. The work lasted from 1859 to 1877 and was led by Paul-Marie Prud'homme, who also drew the plans in a neo-Gothic style. The interior was richly decorated. The painter Raphaël Donguy (1812–77) painted there a fresco in the triforium, as well as on the vaults of the church, the latter having been restored in 1969 by Alain Plesse. In 1865, the coronation of the procession statue of the Virgin was carried out, to which several thousand people attended. In 1903 Pope Pius X gave him the title of minor basilica. In 1957, the bell tower arrow...