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In 1283, Abbot Taillefer, superior of the Cistercian abbey of Nizors, founded the bastide town of Boulogne. It was built on the model of all bastides: church in the centre and public square surrounded by arcades. The church was started around this time, but finished later. It was once rectangular in plan.

Église catholique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine d'Offekerque et son Cimetière was rebuilt for the first time by two ocal architects after a fire broke our in August 1934. It was previously known as the church of Saint Mary Madeleine, but after its reconstruction, it was known by the name of Saint Theresa of the Infant Jesus, referring to the only statue saved from the fire.

The church Sainte-Marie-Madeleine Celles-sur-Ource was dependent on the abbey Notre-Dame de Mores, its former Cistercian abbey neighbor. Built in the sixteenth century, it has a Gothic nave of three spans, extended by a flamboyant five-sided Gothic style choir. You can admire a statue of Mary Magdalene in polychrome limestone (seventeenth century), a high altar with altarpiece and tabernacle (seventeenth century), a painting by P. Cossard (eighteenth century) and windows of the sixteenth century.

The Church Sainte-Marie-Madeleine is located in Sainpuits, Burgundy-Franche-Comté. Erected in the 12th century, it was ravaged by the 100 year war. The nave of the current church dates from the 15th and 15th centuries. The building is dominated by an imposing bell tower with a 16th century flamboyant style portal. Several pieces of furniture are listed as Historical Monuments. The stained glass windows that survive in the apse date back to the second half of the 19th century.

The Sainte-Marie-Madeleine church, built in the 13th century, dominates the entire village of Saint-André-d'Apchon. The 16th century vaulting of the Gothic nave, that is covered with glazed tiles that form a colorful decor with exceptional geometric patterns, required the construction of a frame, and forms a true work of art that deserves a visit. Note the stained glass windows and sixteenth century stalls and the many statues of polychrome gilt wood and stone.

The Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine is located in Saint-Guen, in Brittany. The church is built in the shape of a Latin cross. The choir and the nave were built in 1610, the sacristy dates from 1777 and the entire frame of the church was rebuilt in 1785. The transept is formed by two chapels, separated from the nave by two arches. The building houses important heritage objects, with statues dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth century, including a beautiful Piéta sculpture.

The church of Saint-Mélaine, in flamboyant gothic style (xve century) dedicated to Melaine de Rennes. The priory of Saint-Mélaine was founded between 1149 and 1157 following a donation from Guyomarc'h III, Lord of Morlaix. The church was built at the end of the 15th century by the Beaumanoir workshop of architects. In 1879, the roof lantern of the church was replaced by a wooden spire covered with zinc. The church houses beautiful sandpits and statues from the 15th to the 19th century, as well as a Dallam organ restored in 1971.

This rural-style church was built in 1857 and consecrated in 1879 by Bishop Nicolas Adames, the first Bishop of Luxembourg. It has been renovated several times since the 1950s.

The church was built from the 11th century on the initiative of the Benedictines of the Abbey of Saint-Jean-d'Angély, who would have made the sanctuary a stopover on one of the roads to Santiago de Compostela.

The Trinity Church on Missilien Street is a fine example of a parish enclosure with three founding elements: the placister, the calvary and the fountain. The church is built in an enclosure bounded by a wall, the placister. Just to the left of the entrance, there is a stone blocking the entrance, which can be easily stepped over by man: it is the impassable stiles for animals that prevent them from wandering around in the parish enclosure. It is easy to imagine the cows wandering through this corner of the countryside.