Archives de l'Église catholique de Bretagne
guide des sources privées de l'histoire du catholicisme
Description:... The Catholic Church in Brittany, France has left traces: beliefs and actions, cultural attitudes, objects and monuments, but also archives. Until the late twentieth century, Catholicism has deeply permeated the whole of society: the organization of the parish priests and religious missions, chaplaincies and sponsorships, youth, etc. If public records, county or municipal keep the memory, the Catholic Church also maintains wealth funds. Without excluding older strata, they reflect preferred mutations experienced from the inside, over the last two centuries: Catholicism conqueror axis century, the crises of the early twentieth centuries, the wars, the Second Vatican Council and its sequels, etc.
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