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Picture No 12021066
Date 1922
Description Ancient Breton shrine, Plougasnou, Brittany, Northern France
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Ancient Breton shrine of the Virgin Mary at Plougasnou, Brittany, Northern France, with some interesting caryatids on two of the pillars. The custom is for young women to visit the shrine on Ascension Day to make an offering and pray for a husband.
Source Photograph in Peoples of All Nations, edited by J A Hammerton, Harmsworth, No.20, December 1922
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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