In the Northeast of France, four unique sites can be visited: Guebwiller, Vezelay, Nevers and
Paray-Le-Monial.
Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), a young nun at the
Paray-le-Monial monastery of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary.
(In a conversation this reviewer had with Pere Jean-Rodolphe Kars, a close friend of Messiaen's, in
Paray-le-Monial, France on 4 July 2010, Pere Kars characterized La Transfiguration as influenced heavily by von Balthasar.
On the contrary, French Catholics were foremost in expressing nationalistic sentiment, especially through--as deftly shown by Byrnes--pilgrimages to Lourdes,
Paray-le-Monial, and Chartres.
THERE will be plenty of interest in Dunkerque, who makes his debut in the Prix de l'Hippodrome de
Paray-le-Monial on the same Saint-Cloud card.
Since 1975 the community has based itself at
Paray-le-Monial, which in the seventeenth century became famous as the site of the first reported vision of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and which continues today as a pilgrimage site that attracts 300,000 visitors annually.
He was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1992 and this is the only time that his relics have left the shrine of
Paray-le-Monial in the last 300 years.
Many of the windows feature episodes from her life: her entry into the convent of
Paray-le-Monial, her visions of the Sacre-Coeur, the Virgin Mary giving Marguerite-Marie the infant Jesus to hold, among others.
Marc Boudot, who trains at
Paray-le-Monial racecourse in the Charolais region, did not decide to run his big-race winner until the last moment.