🇨🇵Penitents Les Mées
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Location: Les Mées, Digne-Les-Bains, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France
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Les Mées (pronounced [leː meː], formerly [leː mɛs]; Provençal: Lei Meas) is a French commune with 3,884 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2021) in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It is assigned to the arrondissement of Digne-les-Bains and the canton of Oraison.
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According to legend, during the Saracen invasion in the 8th century, the monks of the Montagne de Lure pursued the beautiful Moorish daughters that a knight had brought home from a crusade. As a punishment, the brothers were turned to stone on the spot by St. Donatus, where they still do penance today.
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