“Throw the cross again in the center of the village.” With “SOS Calvaires”, an association that restores the Christian heritage.

A gesture that comes from the depths of time. Calvary standing at a crossroads in Seyche-sur-le-Loire, near Angers, where fields have gradually given way to housing estates. Several residents, who state that they are not very religious, resort to the protection of this cross standing against them. One of them even says that when they took it out for repair.there was no more defense and we were robbed“. Now he shouldkeep for a hundred yearsAlexandre Caille, general director of the SOS Calvaires association, founded in 1987, which has set itself the goal of restoring this religious heritage, the preservation of which has been mainly the responsibility of the municipalities since the 1905 law.

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