She scrubs up well

 BEFORE - a rusty Virgin...

The niche located at the north end of rue Henri Proust, on rue de Jarry, contains a statue of Mary, who is celebrated here as the result of successful prayers of inter-muros parishioners of the Richelieu church, itself dedicated to the Virgin.  

These prayers resulted in the saving of the town of Richelieu from an epidemic of Cholera in the 19th century.

Now re-furbished and de-rusted. 

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'It's him wot dun it' - Cyr, that is,

just in time for the Assumption of 14 August 2012

Thanks Cyr - she is lovely now; as befits the Virgin Mary!

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