Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Vie
Twelfth-century hilltop chapel at the end of a cypress avenue, once a sanctuary for stillborn infants.
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This guide to the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Vie, on the hill above Mougins near Cannes, is about the parents who once walked up its cypress avenue carrying babies born dead, and what they came here to ask of Our Lady of Life. It touches the Church teaching that drove them, the ex-votos on the chapel walls, and the village procession that lasted into the nineteen seventies. Best heard standing at the chapel door, looking back down the avenue of cypresses.
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