Abstract

The children’s pilgrimages to the sanctuary of the archangel Saint Michael at Mont-Saint-Michel in 1458 attracted the attention of chroniclers and scholars : were the chidren driven by the Holy Spirit or by Satan? In the present study two treatises on the subject, written by Denys the Carthusian and Heymeric de Campo, are edited for the first time and placed against the background of the medieval cult of Archangel and the information on the pilgrimages provided by the chronicles