Sainte-Anne-d'Auray

Lua error in Module:Infobox at line 235: malformed pattern (missing ']').

Sainte-Anne-d'Auray (Breton: Santez-Anna-Wened) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Sainte-Anne-d'Auray are called in French Saintannois.

Breton language

In 2008, 10,82% of all children in the area attended bilingual schools in primary education.^[1]

Culture

The most notable feature of the village is the large Basilica of Sainte-Anne d'Auray, which is a major site of pilgrimage. Saint Anne is the patron saint of Brittany. The Basilica was built in the mid-nineteenth century to replace an earlier church which had housed an ancient statue of Anne. The statue was said to have been miraculously discovered by Yves Nicolazic, a local peasant, who claimed to have had visions from the saint asking him to build a church in her honour.^[2] The statue was destroyed during the French Revolution. In the gardens is a large war memorial to Breton victims of World War I, containing sculptures by Jules-Charles Le Bozec. A large statue of Henri, comte de Chambord, the last significant Bourbon claimant to the monarchy of France, is at the end of the road leading to the now-disused railway station.