Loc Mazé chapel
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The current chapel, built on a rocky promontory on the site of a 15th-century Gothic chapel, dates from the 17th century. It has undergone several restorations, first in the late 18th century, then in 1842 following a lightning strike. Some of the stones from the steeple, destroyed by lightning in 1842, were used to rebuild the steeple of the parish church.
The chapel once boasted fourteen archaic statues, and a painted wood panel of Notre Dame de la Merci, inventoried in 1904. Two are currently back in the chapel: Saint Mathieu or San Vazé vras, recently restored, and Sainte Anne.
In 1979, young people from the Plabennec M.L.C. with Fanch Jestin, then in 1986 the "Buhez ha plijadur e Lok Mazé" association, undertook the restoration of the chapel, culminating in 1999 with the creation of six stained-glass windows.
The Loc Mazé calvary bears the Le Ny de Coatélez family's cinquefoils on two hammered escutcheons and the date 1611 with the initials HM. On the back of Christ, Saint Francis of Assisi shows his hands with the stigmata, next to two geminated statues: the Virgin and Saint Nicolas with three children emerging from the salt cellar, Saint Jean and Saint Hervé guided by Guiharan. Last but not least, there are three statues at the foot of the calvary in 1904, the Ecce Homo and a Sainte Femme on the cemetery wall, and Saint Sébastien in the garden of the former presbytery, now "far from here".
In front of the chapel stands a Kersanton calvary.
The pardon, long abandoned, is now celebrated every year on the third Sunday in August.
Loc Mazé chapel
Loc Mazé29860 Le Drennec