France

 

It is becoming a fashion, suitable for attracting both everyone and naive and gullible people... putting gargoyles with modern features or references to fantastic or extraterrestrial worlds in ancient basilicas. Another example is in the Bethléem chapel (Chapel of Bethlehem) is a Roman Catholic chapel, located in the territory of Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau in the Loire-Atlantique region of France. Classified as a 'historical monument' in 1911 and restored between 1993 and 1995, this construction presents the singularity that some pinnacles are made up of newly created chimeras / gargoyles which refer to prominent characters of American film culture and Japanese television animation : Thus, alongside the more 'classic' centaurs, sirens and the Ankou (the personification of death in Breton mythology), a Gizmo (the good monster), one of the pestiferous Gremlins (the bad monster), the ' usual Xenomorph of the film Alien (as Leviathan, or absolute nothingness, what does not wake up) and even Grendizer (personification of justice, a knight of modern times).