The project of the Path of the Wise was born during a session of the Council of Elders, made up of 9 women and 9 men aged 60 and over, chosen for their wise experience by the Municipal Councillors. On that day, the subject of reflection was the question of how to bring our republican motto “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” to life?
The birth of the Path of the Sages
The idea germinated that sprinkle the city with sentences emanating from famous women and men, globally recognized for their wisdom and their humanism, could challenge the awareness of passers-by Borméens as tourists. In order to justify this bold and innovative project in the eyes of the Mayor and his Municipal Council, the decision is taken to combine this route with historical plaques which were to be installed on the city's emblematic monuments. The members of the Council of Elders then determined the route of this path within the medieval village and worked on the support, texts, images and symbols of these plates.
Le butterfly symbol is chosen because it represents joy, beauty, grace and lightness of being. It refers to the power of personal transformation by its strong power of rebirth. Indeed, before being a butterfly, this insect is first an egg, then it becomes a caterpillar before being a chrysalis and finally a butterfly. Each new step symbolizes a change in life, the let go on what you were to appreciate what you have become. As a symbol of wisdom, This animal is a source of inspiration in life. Under his fragile appearances,
The butterfly has a great strength. Indeed, his life is fleeting (life span of a few days to a few weeks) and yet, it spreads joy and good humor by the grace and beauty of its flight, enjoying every moment that nature offers it. So why not do like the butterfly, to approach with confidence everything that life offers us, good or bad experience, because after all it only lasts a moment. These experiences are not the past the better preparation for the future allowing us to move forward more serenely on the paths of life?
Mother Teresa's Biography
Missionary of charity, a life dedicated to the poor and the sick, Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born to a family of Albanian origin on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, a city located at the crossroads of Balkan history. From the age of twelve, Agnes began to feel the call to dedicate oneself to God. Mother Teresa's life then includes two very distinct periods : her life in the institute of Sisters of Loreto and life in the order of the Missionaries of Charity.
En 1928 At eighteen, she entered the Institute of the Sisters of Loreto, in Ireland. In 1929 she was sent to Calcutta. In 1931, after two years of novitiate, she made her first profession of faith and takes the name of Teresa. ELLE teaches geography at the Sainte-Marie school in Calcutta where she was appointed director in 1944 or her receives the call to dedicate his life to the poor in the slums. In 1946, with the support of the Archbishop of Calcutta, she obtained the Pope Pius XII la permission to leave the order of the Sisters of Loreto. En 1948, life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta be transformed. This is a turning point in the biography of Mother Teresa. She settles in a shanty town (in Taltola) with some other nuns who followed her and creates the Missionaries of Charity foundation, officially established in the Diocese of Calcutta in 1950. The Missionaries of Charity are nuns.
She now takes the name of Mother Teresa, because she chose the little Therese as patron saint and guide to holiness. For more than 40 years, Mother Teresa's life was dedicated to the poor, the sick, the neglected and the dying. It began with the opening of the Calcutta “death house” to ensure a dignified end to those who had lived “like beasts” throughout their lives. 1996 la Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity were 517 missions in more than a hundred countries. There are currently nearly 4000 Missionary Sisters of Charity.
She has received several awards for her work, including the Peace Prize of Pope John XXIII in 1971 and the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1979 for her work on behalf of the underprivileged in India. She used her worldwide fame to to draw the world's attention to important moral and social issues. For 50 years the life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta was marked by the great spiritual trial of the night of faith. She was assailed by doubts about the existence of God. These years of inner night constitute an important trait of his spiritual figure. He was a secretly buried torture inside her and hidden behind a peaceful face that she had in public. No one knew that she was so tormented. This test of the night of faith appears with a precision hitherto unseen with the published in 2007 an work compiling 40 letters written during the last sixty years of his life and some of which she wanted to see destroyed.
After a first heart attack in 1983, his health deteriorates seriously from 1990 and following a malaria attack and a cardiac arrest, she gave up her responsibilities as head of the community in March 1997. She died in her convent in Calcutta at the age of 87, on September 5, 1997. India declared the day after his death a national day of mourning. She offered state funeral to her greatest heroine since Gandhi. The death of Mother Teresa was the occasion for a unanimous tribute, Her funeral was attended by believers of all religions. Mother Teresa's funeral was held at the Calcutta Stadium. Mother Teresa was beatified on October 19, 2003, in Rome, by Pope John Paul II. This date is also the anniversary of the proclamation of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus as Doctor of the Church, a sign of the bond that unites the two Thereses. She was canonized on September 4, 2016 by Pope Francis.
Saint-Trophyme Church
In 1771, theoriginal church of Bormes, located at the top of the village, was became too small and difficult to access. The municipal council then decides to build a new church Romanesque style, able to accommodate 1600 worshipers. 1773 le parish service is transferred to the Saint-François de Paule chapel during construction. En 1775 la The first stone of the new church is blessed, and 1783, After seven and a half years of construction, it was the turn towers, walls and the altar.
The church Saint-Trophyme replaced a small Romanesque building inside the Castle of the Lords of Fos, at the top of the village. During the Revolution, in 1794, the church was transformed into “Temple of Reason” and emptied of its religious elements. However, it is quickly returned to worship. In 1968, Fort Brégançon becomes the official residence of French presidents, and the President Georges Pompidou regularly attended the Saint-Trophyme church. In 1973, the church was listed as a historical monument and sundial is restored thanks to the support of President Pompidou. In 1980, the Interior Way of the Cross is renovated and the church was completely restored thanks to the association “Sauvegarde du vieux Bormes”. In 1996, the roof is consolidated and in 1998, interior work revealed the original frescoes hidden under the plaster, including one depicting “God the Father blessing”. Outside the church is the cross of the courtyard, decorated with symbolic instruments of the Passion and Martyrdom of Christ. The two cypresses surrounding the cross were planted by the painter Georges Henri Pescadère and by Claude Novarro, both resistance fighters and survivors of concentration camps.
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