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Le Reculey
Calvados
Basse-Normandie

Le Mesnil
(Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Bocage)

Statues à la chapelle N.D. du Bocage

Statues at the Chapel of Our Lady of the Bocage

1874

Le Reculey / Statues à la chapelle N.D. du Bocage

Description

At and near the chapel - built 1874 - are six statues.

(at the top) La Vierge Immaculée / St. Mary Immaculate Conception.
In niches flanking the entrance:
Saint Louis, king Louis IX of France, 1226-1270 (Wikipedia).
Saint Jeanne d'Arc / Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed The Maid of Orléans (ca. 1412 - 30 May 1431), national heroine of France (Wikipedia).
Next to the church:
Saint Matthieu / Saint Matthew, evangelist, depicted with an angel
don de m^r chorin
Saint Luke / Saint Luke, evangelist, depicted with a bull.
don de m^r paul pergard
To the far left of the church:
Saint Joseph et Jésus / Saint Joseph with Jesus, the husband of the Virgin Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ (in distinction to God, his "heavenly father") (Wikipedia).

The statues of St. Louis, St. Jeanne d'Arc, St. Luke and St. Matthew are of cast iron, St. Mary of stone and St. Joseph probably plaster.

St. Louis	Mary	St. Jeanne d'Arc
St. Joseph with Jesus	St. Matthew	St. Luke

Inscription(s)

Signed: (St. Jeanne d'Arc and St. Louis):

Union artistique
de Vaucouleurs (Meuse)

(St. Matthew and St. Luke) unreadable

Annotation

On old postcards only the statue of Mary and the four iron statues are show; those four are all on the fence at the sides of the church, the niches in the front façade are empty. It seems that the statue of St. Joseph is added later and those of St. Louis and St. Jeanne d'Arc are placed in the niches.

Locatie (N 48°54'4" - W 0°50'14") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frbn044; Photograph: 2 June 2012
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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© Website and photos: René & Peter van der Krogt

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