Tro Breizh

The Tro Breizh , which in Breton means “turn of Brittany”, is a catholic Pèlerinage which connects the cities of the seven Saints founders of Brittany. These seven saints are monks come from Wales and English Cornwall about the 5th century and 6th century. They brought the Christianisme in Armorique and founded the évêchés first there.

Tro Breizh was done at the origin in one month and 600 kilometers of walk. It is possible that it dates from the 13th century, but he is proven only later. One of the remarkable characteristics of this pilgrimage is to be circular , because the last stage of its pilgrimage brings back the pilgrim to his starting point.

An old Breton legend said that those which will not have carried out their Tro Breizh of their alive will be condemned to do it in Beyond, by advancing length of their coffin, once every seven years.

Historically, it is indicated under the term of pilgrimage to the seven saints . Sometimes qualified circuitus Britanniae (" the tower of Bretagne" in Latin), this term was given into Breton to the XIXe century.

After one long period of absence, it was started again in 1994 by association “the Ways of Tro Breizh” and it was decided to limit walk to a one week stage per annum, that is to say on the basis of a city-stage to arrive at following, in the usual order of the stages. Several associations took up the idea and now organize this pilgrimage according to routes which, contrary to the roads of Compostelle, never were really fixed.

The seven stages cities of the tro Breiz are:

There is no starting order, the important one is to be last by all the stages.

See too

Related articles

  • Évêchés of Brittany

External bonds

  • Site of Tro Breiz

  • On the ways of Tro Breizh (guide)
  • life of Saint-Brieuc

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