The history of Mont Saint Michel is a captivating tale of transformation. What began as a humble hermitage in 708 AD, when Bishop Aubert of Avranches built a sanctuary on the island after ...

NAGAHAMA, Shiga Prefecture--In the midst of an ongoing drought, a small island in Lake Biwako here has taken on the slight resemblance of France’s Mont Saint-Michel. The lake has been called ...

It was the year 708, and, as recorded later in the 9th century text “La Revelation,” St. Michael had ordered the bishop to build a chapel on Mont Tombe, a rocky island at the mouth of the Couesnon ...