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2 days ago · Christianity came to Brittany via the sea. It was the proselytising Celts who were at it again. From Ireland came St Ronan around the 6th century, who founded what is now the beautifully-preserved village of Locronan, near Quimper. The town gained its wealth from the 14th century onwards weaving sailcloth.
4 days ago · En visitant Locronan, vous serez transportés dans le temps grâce à son patrimoine exceptionnel. Parmi les lieux incontournables à découvrir : L’église Saint-Ronan : un chef-d’œuvre de l’art gothique flamboyant datant du XVe siècle. La chapelle du Pénity : édifiée au XVIe siècle ...
4 days ago · Society of Friends, also called Quakers, Christian group that arose in mid-17th-century England, dedicated to living in accordance with the ‘Inner Light,’ or direct inward apprehension of God, without creeds, clergy, or other ecclesiastical forms. Learn more about the Society of Friends in this article.
11 hours ago · As the heiress of the House of Poitiers, which controlled much of southwestern France, she was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.
3 days ago · Star of David, Jewish symbol composed of two overlaid equilateral triangles that form a six-pointed star. It appears on synagogues, Jewish tombstones, and the flag of the State of Israel.
5 days ago · A 60-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for multiple counts of historic sexual abuse of a work colleague’s child while he waited in an office to go to school. Ronan Farrell previously from Derrygonnelly but later residing in Belfast, denied nine counts of indecent assault between 1982 and 1984 but was convicted of all at trial.
5 days ago · The Book of Daniel, a book of the Old Testament found in the Ketuvim (Writings), the third section of the Jewish canon, but placed among the Prophets in the Christian canon. The first half of the book (chapters 1–6) contains stories in the third person about the experiences of Daniel and his.
