Catholic shrines in Normandy

• RouenThe Cathedral and the Old Market Square. Rouen, where Joan of Arc was tried and burned in 1431. The Historial Jeanne d’Arc, beside the cathedral Monet painted, presents her trial.
• LisieuxThe Shrine of Saint Thérèse. Lisieux, where Saint Thérèse grew up and died. Her tomb is in the chapel of the Carmel, and pilgrims visit her family home, Les Buissonnets.
• Mont-Saint-MichelThe Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel. Mont-Saint-Michel has been a shrine of the archangel since 708. The Office is sung in the abbey church, and the bay is crossed on foot with a guide.
• AlençonThe Birthplace of Saint Thérèse. Alençon, where Saint Thérèse was born in 1873 and where Saints Louis and Zélie Martin were married and raised their family.
• MontligeonThe Shrine of Our Lady of Montligeon. The basilica of Montligeon, in the Perche, is the shrine of prayer for the souls in purgatory founded by Father Paul Buguet in 1884.
• BayeuxThe Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Bayeux. The cathedral of Bayeux, consecrated in 1077, and the bishop’s house where young Thérèse Martin asked leave to enter the Carmel.
• Saint-WandrilleThe Abbey of Saint-Wandrille. The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Wandrille, founded in 649 in the valley of the Seine, where monks of Solesmes sing the Office.
• Le Bec-HellouinThe Abbey of Notre-Dame du Bec. The abbey of Le Bec-Hellouin in Normandy, where Saint Anselm was monk and abbot, and where Olivetan Benedictines live today.
• CoutancesThe Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Coutances. The cathedral of Coutances, a work of Norman Gothic with two west towers and a lantern tower that lights the center of the church.
• AvranchesSaint-Gervais and the Scriptorial. Avranches, across the bay from Mont-Saint-Michel, keeps the skull of Saint Aubert and, in its Scriptorial, the manuscripts of the abbey.
• CaenThe City of Saint John Eudes. Caen, the city of Saint John Eudes, apostle of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and of the abbeys of William the Conqueror and Matilda.

Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Aubert, Saint Anselm, Saint Joan of Arc, Saint John Eudes, Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

• Via CathedralisThe Cathedral Way. Seven days from Paris to Reims, by Chartres, Rouen and Amiens.
• Via GratiaeThe Great Shrines of France. Thirteen days from Notre-Dame de Paris to the grotto of Lourdes, through the great shrines of France.
• Via RosarumThe Way of Roses. Five days at the school of Thérèse of Lisieux and her little way.
• Via IoannaeJoan’s Way. Eight days on the road of Joan of Arc, from her village of Domrémy to Orléans, Reims and Rouen, where she died in 1431.
• Via ArchangeliThe Archangel’s Way. Six days on the pilgrims’ roads to Mont-Saint-Michel.
• Via IncarnationisThe Way of the Incarnation. Seven days with the French School of spirituality, from Paris to the Vendée.