THE CROSSES
Thousands of stone crosses were built by the clergy, the notables and the peasants through the Breton countryside, to convert the landscape and express their piety. These crosses are found on the roads, very often at a crossroads or at the entrance of houses. Their forms are very diverse. The crosses of missions erected between the th and th centuries commemorate an event of church life. Some of these crosses have a history or legend such as the meunière cross of Lanfains (1791) that would have been erected as a result of the aggression of a meunière at this place or the Jubilee Cross in Saint-Brandan (1800), a memorial cross that was raised in memory of the victims of Terror, and finally the Kerienquis cross or «justice cross» in Saint-Brandan.-Gildas who would have been the scene of a crime.
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