ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT: Off the coast of Normandy is Mont St.

Michel with a large Benedictine Abbey - 500 yards from from the Cornish coast is St. Michael's Mount which once had a chapel, built by Edward the Confessor and under the jurisdiction of the Abbey. The island can be reached at low tide by foot, otherwise there is a ferry. It is thought that St. Michael's Mount has been associated with Christianity since the Sth century and has been identified by some with the Roman