The pointe Saint-Mathieu (Lok Mazé in Breton) is a headland located near Le Conquet in the territory of the commune of Plougonvelin in Finistère, France, flanked by 20m high cliffs. It is an extension of the cliffs that form the northern limit of the bay of Brest and facing the island de Béniguet , which is part of the Molène archipelago. Its circumvention has always represented a certain danger for sailors.

Nowadays, there are only a few houses clustered around the ruins of the abbey, but in the past, Saint-Mathieu was not limited to the abbey and its outbuildings. Very early on, a village was established, attracted by the coast, its commercial possibilities, its wealth of wreckage and the presence of the monastery.

The foundation of a primitive Celtic abbey from the 6th century by Saint Tanguy remains hypothetical. A legendary story links this foundation to the arrival of the relics of Saint Mathieu, which would have been brought back from Egypt by Breton sailors.

The Romanesque then Gothic abbey is the work of Benedictine monks of the Congregation of Saint-Maur but also of benefactors, in particular the counts of Léon and the family of Châtel de Trémazan .

From the end of the 11th century or the beginning of the 12th century until the French Revolution, the monks in the abbey lead a monastic life according to the Rule of St. Benedict. From the start the abbey was placed under the protection of Saint Mathieu, apostle evangelist. Its cult developed, in particular when the abbey received part of the saint's skull in 1206. Pilgrims flocked, sometimes from far away.

The abbot of Saint-Mathieu had many privileges: right of crowd, right of ban oven, right of sheaf at the twelfth, right of milling, market right, fair right, right to measure wheat, right to measure wine, etc.
In 1157, Hervé de Leon gives him the right to breakage and wreck on the shores of all his lands. In addition the right to spoilwas given and is confirmed in 1602 by letters patent from the king. He granted this right to religious for "all those who perish at sea, and on the coasts of Saint-Mathieu, Plougonvelin and le Conquet ".

Abandoned nowadays, the abbey de Fineterre en Saint-Mathieu was classified as a historical monument in 1867 .

The ruins of the abbey were used for the filming of a television series broadcast during the summer of 2005: Dolmen. It also served as the starting point for all the reports on the Thalassa show for the 2012-2013 season.

The lighthouse was built in 1835, is 37 meters high and rises 56 meters above sea level. “It is a rotating light lighthouse, whose eclipses follow one another for half a minute. in half a minute, and the range of which extends up to 24 kilometers ”, wrote Pol Potier de Courcy in 1867. It can be visited in the summertime. You have to climb 163 steps to access the ledge.

The first semaphore of the cape was built in 1806 , but the current semaphore was erected as close as possible to its extremity in 1906, in order to have a view on the Chanal du Four and on the entrance of the Goulet de Brest . Gradually improved the 20th century, it now reaches 39 meters in height above the level of the sea.

The Chapelle Notre-Dame des Grâces is the old church of the hamlet of St-Mathieu, which was formed at the foot of the abbey and which was much larger in the Middle Ages than today. The current building is limited to the nave, rebuilt in 1861, and its entrance has been completely redesigned.

Requested by Admiral Émile Guépratte , hero of the Dardanelles and deputy of Finistère, and Georges Leygues after the World War I, the Mémorial National des Marins morts pour la France (National Memorial of the Sailors who died for France) was built following the law of July 26, 1923. The stele made by René Quillivic and inaugurated on June 12, 1927 represents a sailor's wife, in a mourning headdress, the embodiment of the sadness of the sailor's mother or widow. The bas-reliefs , present on the four sides of the pylon, symbolize the actions carried out by sailors in defense of the homeland.

The area was recreated manually from various photos and videos from the internet. It comes with its own POI and an animated light fro the lighthouse.

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