What is Mont-Saint-Michel?
The Archangel's Rock
What is Mont-Saint-Michel?
There's an island off the coast of France that looks like someone stacked a medieval village on top of a rock, crowned it with a monastery, and then surrounded the whole thing with quicksand. It's called Mont-Saint-Michel, and yes, it's real.
The story starts in the year 708, when a bishop named Aubert claimed the Archangel Michael appeared in his dreams three times, ordering him to build a church on this rock. Michael had to be persistent — the first two times, Aubert thought he was just having weird dreams and ignored them.
