endez-moi mon cochon, s'il-vous-plait,
Il faisait toute ma felicite,"

chanted the Saint, and to restore the pig with his tail on fire was
conduct worthy only of fallen spirits.

But let us leave the Saint's pigs and return to our sheep.

The Kersanton stone, of which so many churches in Brittany are built,
possesses many virtues, but one great drawback. It defies the ravages of
time, yet is admirable for carving, yielding easily to the chisel. But
time has no influence upon it. Centuries pass, yet still it remains the
same: ever youthful, ever hard and cold. It knows nothing of the beauty
of age; it does not crumble or decay, or wear away into softened
outlines; it takes no charm of tone; no lights and shadows. A dark
grey-green it was originally, and so it remains. Thus, in point of
effect, a church built of Kersanton stone two centuries ago might, as
far as appearance goes, almost have been built yesterday. This is a
great defect; and interferes very much with the charm of some of
Brittany's best churches. It is hard, cold and severe, without
refinement, poetry or romance.

In some cases it atones somewhat by its richness and elaborateness of
sculpture, as in the case of St. Thegonnec. The west front of this
church is Gothic, of the fourteenth century. One of the turrets has a
small, elegant spire, and at the S.W. angle there is a very effective
domed tower bearing the date 1605.

You enter the churchyard by a triumphal arch, in Renaissance dated 1587.
It is large and massive, with a great amount of detail substantially
introduced, its summit crowned by a number of crosses. On the frieze St.
Thegonnec is represented conducting a waggon drawn by an ox: a facsimile
of the waggon that is said to have assisted in carrying the stone to
build the church. St. Thegonnec is the patron saint of all animals, and
to him the peasants appeal for success and good-luck in such matters.

Adjoining the triumphal arch is a Flamboyant ossuary or mortuary chapel,
dated 1581, richly gabled, in perfect preservation, and of two storeys.
The first consists of semicircular arches supported by small pillars
with Corinthian capitals. A short staircase within leads to a crypt
converted into a small chapel, in which is an entombment formed of
life-size figures carved in wood, gilded and painted, bearing date 1702.
The calvary in the churchyard, a remarkable monument, completes the
history, by a multitude of small statues representing al