Chapelle Notre-Dame de Callot
North of Carantec is the island of Callot, separated from the mainland by a sandbank called "ar Vale" . This sandbank is discovered at all tides. The island bristling with rocks has a total length of 3 km. over an average width of 500 m. The highest point is 22 m. above sea level.
"In the year 489, Corsolde, general of the Danes, having descended below Leon, remained there until the year 502, when Prince Rivallon Murmaczon leaving the island of Brittany, descended in Leon, whence he chased Corsolde and his Danes, having forced them after several losses to retire to the island of Callot, where 'he pursued them, forced their camp, and cut them to pieces, and in memory of this victory obtained by the intercessions of Our -Lady, he founded a chapel in the name of the Virgin Mary, in the same place where was the tent of the Barbarian Corsolde, and it is the devout chapel of Notre-Dame de Callot (Albert Le Grand de Morlaix 1636) ” .
This chapel was rebuilt several times. The tower is dated 1672, with the name of M. Lescop, rector of Taulé. The expenses of the tower and the repairs of the vault amounted to 3.227 pounds 10 grounds.
The sanctuary is covered with votive offerings, ribbons, crosses, medals. "This holy place," wrote around 1650 Cyrille le Pennec, "is wonderfully haunted by many people of status and brand and of small upscale people, Leon and Tréguier. Mgr René du Louët, bishop of Cornouaille, when he was first dignitary of Leon, had it enlarged, having built, towards the North, a nice chapel in honor of Saint Joachin and Madame Saint Anne, father and mother of the Most Holy Mother of God. All that is in this place breathes only piety and magnificence, and it is to speak with candor and ingenuity, for good conduct and the noble direction of noble and venerable person Messire Rolland de Poulpiquet, Sieur de Feunteuns afraid, grand vicar of Leon, rector of the said parish of Taulé ” .
During the Revolution the chapel was completely degraded, to be converted into barracks. Two silver chalices were removed; 6 columns including 2 in marble were transported to Morlaix; altars and confessionals were demolished; a chest of drawers was sold for 40 fr. Also the deputy commissioner, Jézéquel, could write to the District of Morlaix, on 23 Vendémiaire, year 3 of the Republic: “We have just crumpled everything in the above-mentioned Chapel of Callot. Put in requisition a mason for the construction of the chimney; the high altar will supply the main stones ” . (Carantec Archives).
After the revolutionary turmoil, everything had to be lifted. It was the work of Mr. Nédelec, rector of Carantec, seconded by the Mayor, André Couhitte. The Blessed Virgin is honored there under the title of Virgo potens ( Guerc'hez galloudus). The fishermen who pass, mounted on their frail boats, discover themselves at the sight of the bell tower and recite the Ave Marie. The sailors, when they leave, have a Mass said; upon their return, it is a Mass of Thanksgiving. If by misfortune they come to disappear within the waves, what supplications to the good Mother for the rest of their souls! Shipwrecks, alas, are only too frequent. From 1890 to 1910, 40 sailors perished at sea, including 19 on the coasts of La Rochelle. The dying have a large part in the prayers of the faithful; then the evening of December 31, when the furrow is dry, the whole country sets in motion, and will ask for the protection of the Blessed Virgin for the new year.
The three pardons of the chapel take place on Pentecost Monday, Trinity Monday, and the Sunday following the Assumption. We can gain a full indulgence these three days. When the sea is full, the procession goes by boat. Until 1858, the Corpus Christi procession went to Callot Island. On an eminence, at the entrance to the island, in front of a fairly extensive plain, rose the oratory from which the blessing was given. This tradition has ceased, the plain has been invaded by sea, and the oratory has been demolished.
Notre-Dame de Callot was a profit known as Government. The accounts were cleared by the Sénéchal: thus from 1759 to 1786, one finds there the signature of Claude Prigent de Querébars, first civil magistrate of Leon. On June 11, 1629 (Departmental Archives) Jehan de Boiséon being on the point of making profession in Blois in the Capuchin order under the name of brother Jérome de Morlaix, gave to the begging religious established in ND de Callot, in the house that the Lord of Lesireur had 60 pounds of revenue built to say five masses at the feasts of the Blessed Virgin. We do not know if the monks settled in Callot, but it is certain that the Capuchins frequently preached there. Their sermons were paid 12 sols.
It was believed for a long time that the banner kept at the presbytery of Taulé had been given to the chapel of Callot by Marie de Leczinska, wife of Louis XV. The idea would have been suggested to the Queen by Mgr du Coëtlosquet, born in Kerigou in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, tutor of the children of France. This banner was offered to the church of Taulé in 1743 by the Marquis de Morant, viscount of Penzé, colonel in the regiment of the dragons of the queen. (Taulé City Hall Archives).
Above the main altar is placed the statue of the Blessed Virgin: it is a work from the 17th century. This altar is surmounted by six silver candlesticks and a cross of the same metal in Louis XIII style. MM. the canons Peyron and Abgrall, in the interesting notice, which they devoted to Carantec, attest that the donor would be Anne de Coatjunval du Louët, who lived at the castle of Kerrom, parish of Minihy. His weapons were: fascinated by vair and six-piece gules . Those of her husband: a silver lion, crowned in the same way against a background of gules . These were the weapons of the de Clisson-Kerallio (Notice by A. de Blois in 1845, kept in the Carantec archives). The chalice of the chapel is a gift from the Marquise de Brésal; his weapons are there:Gules to six bezants of silver . The sanctuary lamp carries the shield of Mgr du Louët, lord of Kerrom, of Coatjunval, who was the son of Jacques du Louet, lord of Kerrom, of Coatjunval, and of Jacquette de Brésal. The castle of Kerrom, in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, where the Louëts lived, became the property of the de Kerhorre, then the Audren de Kerdrel; it is only separated from Callot by the estuary of Penzé and the bay of Pempoul.
A house called Ty-ar-Verc'hez was used during the 18th century for a coast guard detachment. The parish was obliged to provide the beds. On the extreme tip of the island stood a fort of which only ruins remain. It is from the top of this mound, that appears to the delighted eyes of the walker, in the middle of many islets, the marvelous harbor of Paradise, already pointed out in 1794 by Cambry in his work on Finistère, and which offers an excellent mooring to warships. This harbor serves as a break point for the northern squadron.
Chapelle Notre-Dame de Callot
North of Carantec is the island of Callot, separated from the mainland by a sandbank called "ar Vale" . This sandbank is discovered at all tides. The island bristling with rocks has a total length of 3 km. over an average width of 500 m. The highest point is 22 m. above sea level.
"In the year 489, Corsolde, general of the Danes, having descended below Leon, remained there until the year 502, when Prince Rivallon Murmaczon leaving the island of Brittany, descended in Leon, whence he chased Corsolde and his Danes, having forced them after several losses to retire to the island of Callot, where 'he pursued them, forced their camp, and cut them to pieces, and in memory of this victory obtained by the intercessions of Our -Lady, he founded a chapel in the name of the Virgin Mary, in the same place where was the tent of the Barbarian Corsolde, and it is the devout chapel of Notre-Dame de Callot (Albert Le Grand de Morlaix 1636) ” .
This chapel was rebuilt several times. The tower is dated 1672, with the name of M. Lescop, rector of Taulé. The expenses of the tower and the repairs of the vault amounted to 3.227 pounds 10 grounds.
The sanctuary is covered with votive offerings, ribbons, crosses, medals. "This holy place," wrote around 1650 Cyrille le Pennec, "is wonderfully haunted by many people of status and brand and of small upscale people, Leon and Tréguier. Mgr René du Louët, bishop of Cornouaille, when he was first dignitary of Leon, had it enlarged, having built, towards the North, a nice chapel in honor of Saint Joachin and Madame Saint Anne, father and mother of the Most Holy Mother of God. All that is in this place breathes only piety and magnificence, and it is to speak with candor and ingenuity, for good conduct and the noble direction of noble and venerable person Messire Rolland de Poulpiquet, Sieur de Feunteuns afraid, grand vicar of Leon, rector of the said parish of Taulé ” .
During the Revolution the chapel was completely degraded, to be converted into barracks. Two silver chalices were removed; 6 columns including 2 in marble were transported to Morlaix; altars and confessionals were demolished; a chest of drawers was sold for 40 fr. Also the deputy commissioner, Jézéquel, could write to the District of Morlaix, on 23 Vendémiaire, year 3 of the Republic: “We have just crumpled everything in the above-mentioned Chapel of Callot. Put in requisition a mason for the construction of the chimney; the high altar will supply the main stones ” . (Carantec Archives).
After the revolutionary turmoil, everything had to be lifted. It was the work of Mr. Nédelec, rector of Carantec, seconded by the Mayor, André Couhitte. The Blessed Virgin is honored there under the title of Virgo potens ( Guerc'hez galloudus). The fishermen who pass, mounted on their frail boats, discover themselves at the sight of the bell tower and recite the Ave Marie. The sailors, when they leave, have a Mass said; upon their return, it is a Mass of Thanksgiving. If by misfortune they come to disappear within the waves, what supplications to the good Mother for the rest of their souls! Shipwrecks, alas, are only too frequent. From 1890 to 1910, 40 sailors perished at sea, including 19 on the coasts of La Rochelle. The dying have a large part in the prayers of the faithful; then the evening of December 31, when the furrow is dry, the whole country sets in motion, and will ask for the protection of the Blessed Virgin for the new year.
The three pardons of the chapel take place on Pentecost Monday, Trinity Monday, and the Sunday following the Assumption. We can gain a full indulgence these three days. When the sea is full, the procession goes by boat. Until 1858, the Corpus Christi procession went to Callot Island. On an eminence, at the entrance to the island, in front of a fairly extensive plain, rose the oratory from which the blessing was given. This tradition has ceased, the plain has been invaded by sea, and the oratory has been demolished.
Notre-Dame de Callot was a profit known as Government. The accounts were cleared by the Sénéchal: thus from 1759 to 1786, one finds there the signature of Claude Prigent de Querébars, first civil magistrate of Leon. On June 11, 1629 (Departmental Archives) Jehan de Boiséon being on the point of making profession in Blois in the Capuchin order under the name of brother Jérome de Morlaix, gave to the begging religious established in ND de Callot, in the house that the Lord of Lesireur had 60 pounds of revenue built to say five masses at the feasts of the Blessed Virgin. We do not know if the monks settled in Callot, but it is certain that the Capuchins frequently preached there. Their sermons were paid 12 sols.
It was believed for a long time that the banner kept at the presbytery of Taulé had been given to the chapel of Callot by Marie de Leczinska, wife of Louis XV. The idea would have been suggested to the Queen by Mgr du Coëtlosquet, born in Kerigou in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, tutor of the children of France. This banner was offered to the church of Taulé in 1743 by the Marquis de Morant, viscount of Penzé, colonel in the regiment of the dragons of the queen. (Taulé City Hall Archives).
Above the main altar is placed the statue of the Blessed Virgin: it is a work from the 17th century. This altar is surmounted by six silver candlesticks and a cross of the same metal in Louis XIII style. MM. the canons Peyron and Abgrall, in the interesting notice, which they devoted to Carantec, attest that the donor would be Anne de Coatjunval du Louët, who lived at the castle of Kerrom, parish of Minihy. His weapons were: fascinated by vair and six-piece gules . Those of her husband: a silver lion, crowned in the same way against a background of gules . These were the weapons of the de Clisson-Kerallio (Notice by A. de Blois in 1845, kept in the Carantec archives). The chalice of the chapel is a gift from the Marquise de Brésal; his weapons are there:Gules to six bezants of silver . The sanctuary lamp carries the shield of Mgr du Louët, lord of Kerrom, of Coatjunval, who was the son of Jacques du Louet, lord of Kerrom, of Coatjunval, and of Jacquette de Brésal. The castle of Kerrom, in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, where the Louëts lived, became the property of the de Kerhorre, then the Audren de Kerdrel; it is only separated from Callot by the estuary of Penzé and the bay of Pempoul.
A house called Ty-ar-Verc'hez was used during the 18th century for a coast guard detachment. The parish was obliged to provide the beds. On the extreme tip of the island stood a fort of which only ruins remain. It is from the top of this mound, that appears to the delighted eyes of the walker, in the middle of many islets, the marvelous harbor of Paradise, already pointed out in 1794 by Cambry in his work on Finistère, and which offers an excellent mooring to warships. This harbor serves as a break point for the northern squadron.