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Mont Saint Michel (Mount Saint Micheal) is a Benedictine Abby on the coast of Brittany in northern France. In March I got to spend an entire day there, one of the best days of my trip. There were a few tourists, but as you'll see from the photographs I was able to wander almost completely alone, due to the huge size of the place. The entire structure, made up of a large Abby and surrounding church buildings and a small village, was dedicated to the Archangel Michael in 708. According to the brochure I picked up, Michael had three tasks: he weighed souls in order to seperate them into the elect and the damned (no pressure or anything), he led them to heaven while protecting them from lurking demons, and he guarded the gates of paradise. Busy guy! There is a fantastic statue of him at the very top of the Abby, the closest point to heaven. It's difficult to see him from below, and impossible to get a good picture. On the brochures that feature a picture of him, the camera is obviously directly in front of the statue, although how someone got up there to get the shot I don't want to know. The best shot I could get was of the smaller statue of him inside the building, it's the last picture in the series here. I took all the photos using my groovy little Canon Digital Elph. I highly recommend this camera.