The Saint-Trèche chapel in Saint-Jean-sur-Mayenne hosts 150 ex-votos: plaques paying tribute to the soldiers who died during the First World War. A place that can still be visited today.
It’s a chapel like no other. The Saint-Trèche chapel, located in Saint-Jean-sur-Mayenne (next to Laval), has a particularity: it accommodates 150 ex-votos, in this case plaques, which pay homage to soldiers who died during the war 14-18.
Deaths not only from Mayenne
Plaques on which we find the names of fighters from the commune, but also “from the rest of the department, from Nantes, from Quimper, from Morbihan…” reads Michel Alson, the president of the association Meeting the Past of Saint-Jean-sur-Mayenne.
A place once known
A chapel that can still be visited today, which enjoyed its small success at the time: Russian or Chinese soldiers came there to pay tribute to the soldiers, or even to leave donations there!
