The 17th-century cleric Jean Huynes compiled in 1638 a Mont Saint-Michel history as a manuscript, published in book form in 1873, that included the same precise date for the attack: The English, having seen that a fire, on the Monday of Quasimodo, by fortuitous event had reduced to ashes a good part of the village of the Mont … from this they Nestled off the coast of Normandy is Mont-Saint-Michel, a magical site that dates back to the Middle Ages. Wrapped in a picturesque village and topped with a sky-high tower, this tidal island looks like it has been plucked from the pages of a storybook. Mont-Saint-Michel consists of leucogranite which solidified from an underground intrusion of molten magma about 525 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, as one of the younger parts of the Mancellian granitic batholith. [12] Mont-Saint-Michel's storied past begins in 708 AD. After having a vision of the archangel Saint Michael, Bishop Aubert built the first sanctuary on the island (then known as Mont Tomb). On request from the Duke of Normandy, Benedictine monks settled on the island in 966 AD. Dutch Topographic map of Terschelling, Dec. 2014 The "Bosplaat". Terschelling (Dutch pronunciation: [tɛrˈsxɛlɪŋ] ⓘ; West Frisian: Skylge; Terschelling dialect: Schylge) is a municipality and an island in the northern Netherlands, one of the West Frisian Islands.It is situated between the islands of Vlieland and Ameland.. Wadden Islanders are known for their resourcefulness in using As soon as the monks settled down and the construction of the Romanesque abbey church began according to tradition in 1023, the Mount became an essential place of pilgrimage in the entire Christian West. They came to ask Saint Michael for protection and salvation of their souls. .

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