Bethel de Centerville, Duke of Norman Loire

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Bethel was born in Mont-Saint-Michel. Mont-Saint-Michel is a 3 acre rocky islet topped by a famous Gothic abbey, 1 mile off the Northwest coast of France in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel in the English Channel. The Island, located 3 miles from the shore during the Middle Ages, is now surrounded by water only two times a month. Its one cobblestone street climbs in three spirals from a great granite base to the towering Benedictine abbey of Mont-saint-Michel, an architectural masterpiece built in the 13th century, replacing the original abbey, which was founded in 708 by St. Aubert, bishop of Avranches, but destroyed by King Phillip II of France in 1203. The abbey served as a prison during Napoleon's reign. Restored after 1863, and connected to the mainland by a causeway, the abbey is preserved as a national historical monument and is one of France great tourist attractions." Source: "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/3M6V-RJB : accessed 29 August 2012), entry for *Bethel /Centreville/.