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Notre-Dame de l'Assomption ( French for Our Lady of Assumption) is a Roman
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of the ﾃ四es des Saintes, an island in the archipelago of the French
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of
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. It is located in ''rue Jean Calot'' in Fond-du-Curﾃｩ, a ''quartier'' (locality) of Terre-de-Haut Island. It is Latin Rite parish which is included in the diocese of Guadeloupe (), a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Fort-de-France, and a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference. It is registered on the
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of
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(
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) by ministerial decree of 31 December 1979.


Origin

The parish was dedicated to the Virgin of the Assumption in honour of the French victory of 15 August 1666, against the English troops. Sir. du Lion established the cult and the feast day on the island in remembrance. Notre-Dame de l'Assomption became from then on the
Patron saint A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, fa ...
of Terre-de-Haut.


Bell tower

Four bells compose the bell tower of the church: the first one is a bell dated since 10 April 1820 which results from foundries ''Villain'', caster in
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. The second is a bell offered by M. Lasserre, commissioner of ''Marie Maria Victoria'' (a monastery), melted by Astier in
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in 1884. The third bell was melted for the parish under Charles FOY's mandature, Mayor of Terre-de-Haut and
Abbﾃｩ ''Abbﾃｩ'' (from Latin , in turn from Greek , , from Aramaic ''abba'', a title of honour, literally meaning "the father, my father", emphatic state of ''abh'', "father") is the French word for an abbot. It is also the title used for lower-ranki ...
(
Abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from ''abba'', the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ''ab'', and means "father". The female equivale ...
) Ruffin, Priest of the parish. it was melted by ''Ferdinand Farnier'', in Robecourt (
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) and baptized ''Maria Antonia''. The fourth and last bell was installed on 23 April 2006 and baptized by Ernest Cabo,
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of Guadeloupe. It was offered by the municipality at the end of the rebuilding of the bell tower destroyed by the 2004 Les Saintes earthquake.


See also

* Roman Catholic Marian churches *
Assumption of Mary The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Catholic Mariology#Dogmatic teachings, Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it on 1 November 1950 in his apostolic constitution as follows: It leaves open the question of w ...
* History of les Saintes


References

{{Reflist Buildings and structures in ﾃ四es des Saintes Roman Catholic churches in Guadeloupe Monuments historiques of Guadeloupe