Built in 1850 as an offering from parishioners to the Virgin Mary after a cholera epidemic, this chapel was a place of pilgrimage during half a century for the ‘Terres-Neuvas’ (fishermen who left Europe to fish off the coast of Newfoundland) and those going to fish in the Icelandic seas. From this point, fishermen’s wives would scan the horizon to catch sight of the boats returning from their deep-sea fishing trips. The inside of the edifice houses a number of ex-votos. This private chapel is open every afternoon in July and August.
Did you know?
A replica of the Chapel of Notre Dame d’Espérance in Etables-sur-Mer has been built in Felicity – Arizona (USA).
Jacques-André ISTEL, an American of French origin, founded a town in Arizona and named it Felicity (his wife’s name was Felicia). Now the mayor of the town, this former Colonel from the parachute regiment began building the church as a memorial to humanity.
having decided to build such a sanctuary, he remembered the Chapel of Notre Dame d’Espérance, that he had seen during a visit to the Côtes d’Armor in 2004. Having fallen under the spell of the chapel’s architecture, he decided to build a replica in his own town in Arizona. And so, on 7 March, 2008, this chapel in the desert was officially inaugurated in the USA, and on 15 Augus, 2008, a delegation came from France with an ex-voto offering, a reproduction of the ‘Barque Ailée’ by M.SALIOU, originally by Jean-Marie LE BRIS from Etables-sur-Mer.
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