ST ANNE D'AURAY & VIRGIN MARY Antiq 19th Cent. MEERSCHAUM PLAQUE - WOOD FRAME

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Antique 19th CENTURY HANDCARVED MEERSCHAUM PLAQUE w/ WOOD FRAME

ST. ANNE D'AURAY & VIRGIN MARY

Antique, 19th Century, handcarved meerschaum plaque, protected by bombé glass,  depicting St. Anne d'Auray with Virgin Mary and the fragment of the old statue at the pedestal.  Inscription in French meaning "Souvenir of St. Anne d'Auray". Wood frame painted black with a second golden metal frame around the glass  and the back is lined with paper.  It is prepared to hang.  There is a reflex on the glass caused by the lamps light.

Size: Total w/ frame 3,35 x 3,94 inch = 8,5 x 10 cm // just the plaque: circa  1,57 x 2,17 inch = 4 x 5,5 cm 

Sainte Anne d'Auray - A little village three miles from the town of  Auray   (6,500 inhabitants), in the   Diocese of Vannes   (Morbihan), inFrench   Brittany, famous for its   sanctuary   and for its   pilgrimages , or   pardons, in   honour   of   St. Anne , to whom the people of   Brittany, in very early times, on becoming   Christian , had   dedicated   a   chapel . This first   chapel   was destroyed about the end of the seventh century, but the   mem ory   of it was kept alive by   tradition, and the village was still called "Keranna", i.e. "Village of Anne". More than nine centuries later, at the beginning of the seventeenth century (1624-25),   St. Anne   is said to have appeared several times to a simple and   pious   villager, and commanded him to rebuild the ancient   chapel . The   apparitions   became so frequent, and before so manywitnesses, that   Sebastien   de Rosmadec,   Bishop   of   Vannes , deemed it his   duty   to inquire into the   matter. YvesNicolazic, to whom   St. Anne   had appeared, and numerous   witnesses, testified to the   truth   of events which had become famous throughout   Brittany, and the   Bishop   gave permission for the building of a   chapel . Anne of Austria and Louis XIII enriched the   sanctuary   with many   gifts, among them a   relic   of   St. Anne   brought from   Jerusalem   in the thirteenth century, and in 1641 the Queen obtained from the   Pope   the erection of a   confraternity, which   Pius IX   raised to the rank of an   archconfraternity   in 1872. In the meanwhile   pilgrimages   had begun and became more numerous year by year, nor did the   Revolution   put a stop to them. The   chapel , indeed was plundered, the Carmelites   who served it driven out, and the   miraculous   statue   of   St. Anne   was burned at   Vannes   in 1793; yet the   faithful   still flocked to the   chapel , which was covered with ex-votos. In 1810 the   convent   of the   Carmelites was turned into a   petit séminaire. In 1866, the   Cardinal   Saint   Marc laid and   blessed   the first   stone   of the present magnificent   basilica. Finally, in 1868,   Pius IX   accorded to the   statue   of   St. Anne, before which many   miracles   had been wrought, the   honour   of being   crowned .   St. Anne   has continued to be the favourite   pilgrimage   of   Brittanydown to the present day:

C'est notre mère à tous; mort ou vivant, dit-on, 
A  Sainte-Anne , une  fois ,  doit  aller tout  Breton .
From Catholic Encyclopedia

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  • Material: Wood
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