Rich was meeting Duncan in Chinon to go pick up the box springs for our new “French” beds. Duncan has a big pickup truck that could easily accomadate the double bed sized box springs. We left Rich off with Duncan at the Hotel Sans Souci with its glowing orange plastic palm tree. It was so hot, maybe 30ºC. The girls didn’t feel like hanging around Chinon, especially since most things were closed on Sunday. We decided to go back to Montsoreau and hang out. Along the way I stopped in Candes to show them the church.
The church is built on the spot where Saint Martin is reputed to have died. It was built in the 12th century. The headless figures in the entry porch are evidence of the ferocity of the wars of religion in this part of France.
It was interesting to be in this church with a Sikh and a Hmong person, who although Christian is from a culture that is shamanistic and animist. The images and iconography were very familiar to me; they tell a story that makes sense in the context of Christian mythology. But for Anna and Jag they seemed very foreign to their experience. Later, while we were having a drink in the café at the train station, we had a good discussion about the nature of faith and why people believe what they do.
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