Saint-Par-on-Sea

Saint-Par-on-Sea is a common French, located in the department of the Manche and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

Saint-Par-on-sea is a small town located in bay of the Mount-Saint-Michel at 3,5 km at the south of Granville (the " Monaco of Nord" , vis-a-vis the islands Chausey).

History

The history of Saint-Par-on-Sea goes back to the Early middle ages: the borough, which one then called Scissy or Sessiac, was évangélisé as of the Life century. At that time, the legend describes the region as being a large forest, the forest of Scissy, which will be absorbed by water in a cataclysm. Only like emerged traces the granitic solid masses of the Mont Saint Michel and Tombelaine would remain.

The history of Even Saint is marked by the presence of five saints during Ve and VIe century, whose tombs and sarcophagi can be visited in the parish church still today:

Holy Par (482-565), called so Benevolent, come from Poitiers in company of Subilion saint to found the abbey of Scissy, of which he was the first abbot before becoming bishop of Avranches.
Holy Gaud (400-491), former bishop of Évreux come in Scissy in hermitage after 40 years from episcopate. He made spout out the miraculous fountain which bears its name today, with the foot of the Saint-Gaud rock.
Holy Aroaste.
Holy Scubilion.
Holy Senier, which became bishop of Avranches following Pair saint.

The armorial bearings of the parish of Saint-Par-on-Sea reflect this history: they represent five aureoles floating above water, the blazon being decorated with the miter and the stick of the abbots.

The current church is composed of two parts:

a Romance part dating from XIIe century, equipped with a square bell-tower with two stages and an octagonal arrow. The sarcophagus of Gaud saint was found by digging the foundations of the tower in 1131, and currently has its own built vault at the XIXe century. The sarcophagi of the four other saints are preserved in the Romance part of the church.
an extension built into 1880/1888, the Romance nave become too small and used today for the eucharistic celebrations. The foundations of the abbey of Scissy are located under the chorus of the modern church and are marked on the ground by lines of black pavement.

Heraldic

Administration

Jacques OLIVIER

Demography

Places and monuments

Church of St-Par-on-Sea
Vault Holy-Anne
Monastery of Carmel
Church of the borough of Kairon
Fountain Saint-Gaud

Personalities related to the commune

Holy Gaud
Holy Par or Benevolent saint
Holy Scubilion
Holy Aroaste
Holy Senier
Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, journalist-writer, who had there a second home
Fernand Fleuret (1883-1945), poet, passed his childhood to Saint-Par-on-Sea.

See too

Common of the English Channel

External bonds

Saint-Par-on-Sea on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Par-on-Sea on the site of INSEE
Saint-Par-on-Sea on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Par-on-Sea on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Par-on-Sea on Mapquest
the Mérimée database - the architectural heritage French
Saint-Par-on-Sea on the site GeneaWiki

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