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Château La Morlière 🏰🪙 – Crucifix de Pontmain ✝️ loop from Astillé

Château La Morlière 🏰🪙 – Crucifix de Pontmain ✝️ loop from Astillé

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Château La Morlière 🏰🪙 – Crucifix de Pontmain ✝️ loop from Astillé

02:55

67.2km

580m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 24, 2026

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18.5 km

Saint-Siméon Church of L'Huisserie

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Simeon is an old man from the time of Jesus Christ who was told by God that he would not die until he saw the Messiah. Imagine the anguish he had seeing himself aging day after day.
But one day, in front of the Temple of Jerusalem, he saw Mary and Joseph bringing their son Jesus, to fulfill the Law of Moses, like good practitioners. Then Simeon took the child:
"Now Lord, you may let your servant go in peace according to your word, for my eyes have seen the Savior whom you are preparing, Light to enlighten the Greeks, and Glory of your chosen people."

Simeon's canticle is also called the "Nunc Dimitis". It is sung every night before going to sleep by all the priests and all the men and women religious of the Catholic Church throughout the world.

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22.4 km

Château La Morlière 🏰🪙

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Family castle built in the 19th century, it is a place that is not very accessible.

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26.8 km

Crucifix de Pontmain ✝️

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In Mayenne, there are about 6,400 crosses on the roads, of which at least fifty refer to the apparitions of Pontmain.

Pontmain? One of the 5 places where the Most Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in France.
In 1871, the whole parish of Pontmain prayed to ward off the Prussian war. Our Lady appears in the center of the village, and says to them:
"But pray my children, God will answer you in no time. My son allows himself to be touched."
The Virgin holds in her hands a red crucifix with a sign "Jesus Christ" above.

After 1871, Calvaries multiplied in Mayenne and often took up the model of the appearance of Pontmain. Even today, the "Crucifix de Pontmain" is very visible in Mayenne.

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29.9 km

Le Choiseau de la Houssay 🛣️💫😵‍💫

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Here I almost died. I think I had the scare of my life. Having lost control of my bike on the slope, I fell on my luggage rack, and it braked my rear wheel, veiling it.
For a quarter of a second, I thought I was going to finish him in the background, and that I couldn't get out without a serious injury. It's crazy all the ideas that go through your head in such a short time.
Eventually, or miraculously, everything stopped, and I didn't even find myself on the ground. #AMDG

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31.9 km

Catholic Church - St-Aignan de La Houssaye⛪✨🌿

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In Orleans, around 453, Saint Aignan was the bishop who, putting his trust in God alone, obtained from him, through repeated prayers and tears, that the city besieged by the Huns be delivered.

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34.3 km