premise: The austere facade of the 15th-century Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, where the wedding was celebrated, doesn't prepare you for the characteristic Basque carved oak galleries to separate the various classes of worshippers on three sides of a single nave, with polychrome wooden vaulting and a three-tiered gilded-and-crimson Baroque altar.
hypothesis: The 15th-century monks believed in maintaining austere appearances, and focused on the the internal, or spiritual world.