It is a large 19th century cast-iron Christ, which had been forgotten at the bottom of a barn for about fifty years. Restored, it was reinstalled on June 27 at the edge of a hiking trail, on "a small plot of 2 m²" granted by the municipality of Bazouges-Cré-sur-Loir, in the Sarthe.
This was without counting on the very zealous vigilance of the National Federation of Free Thought which tracks Christmas cribs, crosses and Calvaries throughout France, and which has already spotted this Christ on the cross: "How to understand this official inauguration, accompanied of a blessing, in a Republic which has separated the churches from the state since 1905? ” , takes offense to his representative from Sarthe, who demands “the removal of this cross on private land” .
It is still not our fault that our heritage is essentially Christian!
Michèle Sadoulet, president of the Association for the preservation of the heritage of Bazouge-CréBad trial, retorts Michèle Sadoulet, president of the Association for the preservation of the heritage of Bazouge-Cré. “A number of elders considered that they were losing a little of their identity with the merger of the two villages ,” she recalls.
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