European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mont Stmichel  crude Stone Church to a huge Island fortress by Richard Benke Assiut rated press i u Milf Miles . It looks  Hild s Sand i Amle rising from the White l mapped sea hut no one forgets his Host it i lose \ i skim Cit the Itu credible Edilu e known As Mont m Muhi l. Construe on of the Complex was begun More  1 cd i ear ago and Tell because of a dream. Aubert the Bishop it Avran thes on hi1 f rein h  no my was the dreamer. I legend a s i hat hit dreamed three limes  St. Michael tame to him i his Steep and ordered Hun to build .1 shnm.1 in in a met Lombe. W a h uses from the Togge  to rot of s iss i Lew Finis South of a a. The third Lime. A my  tapped him on t in Side of his  cd  his Nam Ricot ,1 do , -. Utik1 Jerome Koh mid  i tour roup in he lilt . He joints out a Trai turd  i fid to i us upstairs it Hie it  the Art Hanifl s Liuji of Lort fut la making its Point on tin Bishop %  1 he Hilt in Gan i anti if. ,10, Rouleau ,1 l i Tore the Bonnans. Bclnri1  Rio c t arabs imaged Lur opt in 7u. In the imply eighth Tenbury tin line of i Frankish Kic is known As the merovingian  Lor their ukes Lral  Merae has ii let out  and dissolute alter to i Matunes of fratricide.  Lett a pts or vacuum in Nuil. Hie King Hildebert Iii. Vas i  that most  Don t Een men ton him. His a Lac i majr. Pepin la younger \-.,is de i it to ruler. I he roman  hot it Chun h  the sole Deposit rot i european i Tuli action when the Host i Hun h was built on the rot by islet f he foundation of that first Bur. Little More than a t rude Stone hut was built before the end of the \ ear 7 a and Oul Debert was one of the hrs pilgrims Mort la liter its completion in 7i Foj however the land Sank and the sea obliterated the Forest leaving Mont St my lie it the whim of it. Sea. The Mont is in Island at High tide linked to the Mainland Only by a mile Long t causeway but it has not been isolated from history. It tames within its Walls the memories of a Kings and countless Dukes and peasants in layers of Arth Utec Ture and Artifay is that Dale from times far past. I he strut Ture extensively renovate i during the 1 9th and Job enl Imes now brings to More than 1 million \ visitors a Vear. T towels. Restaurants and tour shops thicken around it. And a Gold armoured statue of be Art  a. My  1 an be seen shimmering s i i feel Alop the Hun h s lit in turn s ire thu h dominates the  but tank t Oasis just .1-, once the  to Istre. Ii inn att a in adm if Nice. And be ies i h i a Jas at the hts Tori Northern  or  in the i Naghsh Channel. Churches dedicated to St. Muhael. The i Hangel c to the lament hero Tif i Avin who i of Zered  pouted to Over i Europe in tin hark Ages Ann Smi their to w As Monte c Pargano in leak w Here it Vas  the Angel had appeared and same my  a Hunt on the Cornish c Nast is almost direct to Atrops the   from Mont Tom he. One Stone Wall inn is albeit 1 first i Hufi i remains in a in it below the main Sanctuary it Mont St. My he today. 7 be stones arc rough hew m and t la mss unlike the smooth it Granite that was quarried and brought in by Barge from the near Causey islands in the Siu t be dog ten Urius. A Hen the normans Imado Gaul in the Lite ninth and Early 10th Antunes the Mont became a refugee Camp. When the normans accepted the Faith they brought in Benedum Tine monks to build a new pc k Ornan esque Tycin h herein 966. In io5h, Duki re Harle and  the conqueror  there on a pilgrimage before his invasion of England. Under Phi Hope Auguste the monks built a dramatic 1th-Tentury monastery called the Marvel Bic h Stales it Seaward fact.1 of the Mountain reinforced by Graceful buttresses Bat Luok like Long spindly fingers. It s called the Maru a because it took Only 17 years to build. During the Trench revolution  ears after it was first built Mont 5t. Michel became a prison and be Benedictines were banished. But St. Michael could t be banished from the hearts of frenchmen. 1 he Knightly order of St. My Hael called Bac k the heroism of the Franks Ami Charlemagne and William the conqueror both carried the Emblem of St. Michael into Battle. The archangel the believed was at his strongest when danger threatened most More  1 "5 ears alter the Las it hoes of the i Rench revolution faded the Benedictine order returned to Mont St. Michel in 1966. F our monks and three nuns currently run the Church. But it is  sustained by the sleepless St. Muha Eland by the tourists of course who Marvel at the Graceful gothic adventure. Stripes mag inet cd Ember 2j, 1989