The Grand Pardon de Sainte-Anne d’Auray remains one of Brittany’s central pilgrimage gatherings, organized around the feast of Saint Anne and the sanctuary that has shaped local devotion for centuries. The 2026 program spans processions, Vespers, Mass, a torchlight vigil and a sound-and-light narration of the apparitions. Sunday includes Mass in Breton, a major procession, Pontifical Mass, rosary, solemn Vespers and a Fest-Deiz with Kanerion Pleuigner. The event joins religious practice, Breton language, music and collective memory in a single pilgrimage weekend.
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Pierre de Keriolet in Sainte-Anne-d’Auray: Son et Lumière
The Son et Lumière Pierre de Keriolet, le bandit de Dieu returns to the open-air theater of Pont Er Groah in Sainte-Anne-d’Auray. More than 130 actors and extras, with animals, carts and period costumes, recreate a 17th-century village to tell the linked stories of Yvon Nicolazic and Pierre de Kériolet. The performance connects the apparition tradition of Saint Anne, the origins of the Sainte-Anne d’Auray pilgrimage site and the dramatic conversion of Kériolet. Running about 90 minutes, it is staged as historical theatre for adults and children.