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Chapelle et fontaine Saint-Efflam (Plestin-les-Grèves)

Plestin-les-Grèves

Dimensions
present chapel of 1883, on the remains of a 16th-century building
Period
Legendary foundation placed around 470; Latin legend composed only from the 15th century onwards
What stands there
original fountain of devotion and divination, offertory box

According to legend, the Irish monk Efflam landed on the strand at Plestin around 470 and made this spring gush forth to quench the thirst of King Arthur, then locked in combat with a dragon near the bay of Lannion — a rare crossing of Breton hagiography and Arthurian romance. Historians agree in dating the composition of this Latin legend to the 15th century at the earliest, several centuries after the supposed events. The devotional fountain, which remains below the present chapel (1883, on an earlier 16th-century building), is still used for rites of popular divination.

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Getting there : Free admission

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Chapelle et fontaine Saint-Efflam (Plestin-les-Grèves)
Moreau.henri · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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