The chapel and fountain of Saint-Guenaël

Located in the heart of the village, the story tells that the chapel of Saint-Guénaël occupies the site of the last monastery founded by Saint-Guenaël, who ended his days there in the 6th century. Several times redesigned, the building retains openings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Housing statues and ex-voto boats, it welcomed the parishioners until the construction of the church of Saint-Joseph du Plessis in 1909. The annual pardon took place there in September, and once gathered the sailors of Groix and the roadstead, who came to be under its protection. His statue was led in procession to the fountain, only accessible at low tide.

They had the reputation of curing eye diseases. Thus, until a relatively recent period, pilgrims poured the brackish water of the fountain on this stone. They placed a handkerchief in the cupules dug in this ancient millstone, intended to grind grain in the Middle Ages. Then, the faithful applied the cloth to their eyes, and the remedy seemed effective! It should be noted that salt water indeed enters the composition of eye drops.