On Thursday, August 29, 2024, a singular bell was installed and baptized by Father Francis Marécaille, parish priest of Avranches, at the priory of Saint Léonard in Vains, in the presence of a beautiful and numerous assembly of villagers, parishioners, and friends of the place. After having served in the French National Navy on the Pluton, a mine-laying cruiser destroyed in an explosion on September 13, 1939, this anonymous bell was installed in a church in Rabat, Morocco, then removed in the 1960s. It then boarded the training ship Jeanne d'Arc in Rabat to reach the port of Brest and arrived at Saint Léonard at Easter 1981, awaiting its new life.
After these profane and sacred peregrinations across the seas and in Muslim land, Anne Julie Louise found her name and her vocation. She now daily rings the Angelus for pilgrims, fishermen, farmers, and inhabitants. The more than millennial chapel of the Saint Léonard priory thus regains its voice, that of the spiritual call to prayer and that of the daily cradling of our lives.