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Notre-Dame, Folgoët, Finistère, Brittany, France
Commemorated on First Sunday of September
Known as the "nut of the woods," St. Salaün lived in a forest clearing near a spring, over which he enjoyed hanging from an oak branch, immersed to his shoulders, singing "O Maria." He lived by begging: "Ave Maria! Salaün could sure eat some bread!" After he died in 1358, aged 48, in the woods near the spring people found a white lily with "Ave Maria" in gold lettering on its petals — growing from the mouth of the dead fool buried beneath. The Basilica of Notre-Dame du Folgoët was begun on the spot in 1365, completed in 1419, and consecrated in 1423. Its main altar is over the spring, channeled into a basin outside behind the church. In 1888, a dark stone Virgin was crowned Our Lady of Folgoët, replacing a polychrome wood statue of 1650 which was moved to a side altar. The Black Virgin is standing, holding the Child with her left arm; both wear large crowns. Her back is flat; the statue may have been on the exterior of the church before the Revolution, when some statues were damaged and removed for safekeeping or repair. In the late 1500s, the big pilgrimage date was August 15, Feast of the Assumption. Three hundred years later, the celebration moved to September 8, Nativity of the Virgin. Since 1970 the Grand Pardon has been held the first weekend in September, with a succession of processions and masses in the Breton language. (Information and picture from the Basilica's site, notre-dame-folgoet.cef.fr. See also Société Archéologique du Finistère, www.le-finistere.org.)