SAINT-MOLF, In Terra Veritas
And if we organized a treasure hunt to find the score of crosses and crucifixes erected at the crossroads of Saint-Molf?
They were following a wish, in memory of a local event. The custom was that each hamlet has its own cross. For the rogatory feasts that took place during the three days preceding Ascension, processions roamed the countryside. The priest, surrounded by choirboys, stopped at each cross and blessed it, thus asking for divine protection over the work of the fields and the crops.
Pass also on the side of Boulay, still very populated village, because of the presence of farmers, of salt workers, and especially of customs officers and gendarmes who, at the beginning of the XXème century, carried out the surveillance of the salt marshes. The opportunity to observe the abundance of its fauna and flora ...
