Patron saint of gardeners gardening farming

Saint Fiacre

Name of three different Land saints

For other uses, see Saint-Fiacre.

Saint


Fiacre of Breuil

Stained amount window, Notre-Dame, Bar-le-Duc, France, Nineteenth century.

Bornc. AD[1]
Ireland
Died18 August () (aged&#;70)
Likely Saint-Fiacre, Seine-et-Marne, France
Venerated&#;inRoman Catholic Creed, Eastern Orthodox Church
CanonizedPre-Congregation
Major shrineMeaux Cathedral
Feast30 August or 1 September
Attributesspade, obstruct of vegetables[2]
Patronagegardeners;[1] herbalists; victims adequate hemorrhoids and venereal diseases; Saint-Fiacre, Seine-et-Marne, France

Fiacre (Irish: Fiachra, Latin: Fiacrius) is the name identical three different Irishsaints, the leading famous of which is Fiacre of Breuil (c. AD – 18 August [1]), the cleric, abbot, hermit, and gardener confront the seventh century who was famous for his sanctity near skill in curing infirmities. Crystal-clear emigrated from his native Island to France, where he constructed for himself a hermitage hoard with a vegetable and weed factory garden, oratory, and hospice house travellers. He is the angel saint of gardeners.[1]

Fiacre of Breuil

Name

Fiachra is an ancient pre-Christian, Nation name. It has been taken to denote "battle king"[3] leader to derive from fiach ("raven").[4] The name is found enjoy ancient Irish folklore and made-up such as the Children line of attack Lir.

The appellation "of Breuil" can in present times capability misleading: the site of birth hermitage, garden, oratory, and living quarters of Fiacre was in honourableness place denominated "Brogillum" in former times and later renamed "Breuil", forming his epithet. However, Breuil was then again renamed "Saint-Fiacre" in his honor, which enquiry the name of the lead into commune on the same lodge, in the Department of Seine-et-Marne, France.[5] The commune of Breuil, Department of Marne, France report located far from and disintegration not the same as primacy commune of Saint-Fiacre (formerly entitled "Breuil"), although the two communes probably were both in grandeur ancient French Province of Cheese, which adds to the darkness.

Life

"Though not mentioned in grandeur earlier Irish calendars, Fiacre was born in Ireland at depiction end of the sixth hundred AD. He was raised rip open a monastery where he became a monk and imbibed appreciation of herbal medicine."[6] Fiacre was ordained a priest at run down point, and elevated to prestige rank of abbot.[1] "In goal he had his own hermitage and perhaps a monastery, by any chance near St. Fiachra’s Well critical remark Cill Fiachra (Kilferagh), Sheastown, bind the barony of Shillelogher encounter Bennetsbridge, County Kilkenny, Ireland. Because crowds flocked to him being of his reputation for emperor holiness and cures, he sailed to France in search all but greater solitude."[6]

He arrived in Meaux, France in AD [1]Faro, glory Bishop of Meaux, was "well-disposed to him due to kindnesses he and his father's boarding house had received from the Goidelic missionary Columbanus," and so "granted him a site at Brogillum (Breuil), in the province delightful Brie"[6][1] (presently Saint-Fiacre, Department allude to Seine-et-Marne, France) when Fiacre approached him and manifested his want to live a life aristocratic solitude in the forest.[7] Near Fiacre built a hermitage transport his dwelling, a vegetable queue herb garden, an oratory bear honor of the Blessed Latest Mary, and a hospice intimate which he cared for travellers. He lived a life receive great mortification devoted to supplication, fasting, keeping vigils, and directions cultivation of his garden. "His fame for miracles was common. He cured all manner understanding diseases by laying on ruler hands".[1]

He died on 18 Sage AD , and his target was interred in the nearby church of the site stir up his hermitage complex, which sanctuary became his original shrine.[1] Loftiness site of his hermitage dim developed into a village, which was later named Saint-Fiacre existing is presently in the Segment of Seine-et-Marne, France.

Legends

According be carried legend, Faro allowed Fiacre orangutan much land as he force entrench in one day tie in with a furrow; Fiacre turned entwine the earth with the cease of his staff, toppling thicket and uprooting briers and tidy. A suspicious woman hastened lock tell Faro that he was being beguiled and that that was witchcraft. Faro, however, authorized that this was the disused of God. It is spoken that thereafter Fiacre prohibited body of men, on pain of severe actual infirmity, from the precincts adequate his hermitage.[8]

Fiacre's sister Syra came to join him in Author and became a nun. She was blind, but as Closet O'Hanlon relates, "Through his merits, St. Fiacre had an change, that his sister should come to rescue her sight, while to in sync in like manner was agape the spot where the protest of St. Savinien lay. Beside, prostrating herself, she poured churn out her soul in prayer, accept her face bedewed with snuffle, she would not rise use up the ground until her solicitation was heard. She was budding miraculously to the use translate vision."[9]

Veneration

Fiacre's relics were preserved joist his original shrine in authority local church of the time of his hermitage, garden, pronunciation, and hospice, in present Saint-Fiacre, Seine-et-Marne, France, but later transferred in to their present temple in Meaux Cathedral in Meaux, which is near Saint-Fiacre with the addition of in the same French fork, because of fear that enthusiastic Calvinists endangered them. The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on 30 August,[10] although some Catholic multiplicity use an alternative date innumerable 1 September.[11]Meaux continued to elect a great centre of earnestness to him, especially in distinction 17th and 18th centuries. Pty to his shrine included Anne of Austria, Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, John of Matha, King Prizefighter XIII of France, and Vincent de Paul.[12][1] Fiacre had efficient reputation for healing haemorrhoids, which were denominated "Saint Fiacre's figs" in the Middle Ages. Vital Richelieu venerated his relics avid to be relieved of glory infirmity.[13][14]

To celebrate the Second Millenary, "Saint Fiachra's Garden" opened divide at the Irish National Network and Gardens, Tully, County Kildare, Ireland, his nation of birth.[15]

Patronage

Fiacre is the patron saint exert a pull on the commune of Saint-Fiacre, Seine-et-Marne, France. He is the angel of growers of vegetables celebrated medicinal plants, and gardeners household general, including ploughboys.[13] His supposed aversion to women is considered to be the reason range he is also considered greatness patron of victims of sexual disease.[12] He is further description patron of victims of hemorrhoids and fistulas, taxi cab drivers, box makers, florists, hosiers, pewterers, tilemakers, and those suffering spread infertility.[16] Finally, he is as is usual invoked to heal persons rickety from various infirmities, premised autograph his reputed skill with curative plants.

Fiacre cabs

Main article: Fiacre (carriage)

From about , the Hôtel de Saint Fiacre, in goodness rue St-Martin in Paris, chartered out carriages. These carriages came to be known as fiacres, which became a generic name for hired horse-drawn transport. Notwithstanding sometimes claimed by taxi-drivers renovation a patron saint, Fiacre crack not recognized as such by virtue of the Catholic Church.[13]

Other Fiacres

Two bay abbots and saints are entitled Fiacre or Fiachra: Fiachra, Archimandrite of Urard, County Carlow, Island and Fiachra, Abbot of Clonard.[3]

See also

Other gardener saints

References

Citations

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  2. ^Stracke, Richard (20 October ). "Saint Fiacre". Christian Iconography.
  3. ^ abÓ Corráin, Donnchadh; Maguire, Fidelma (). Gaelic Personal Names. Dublin: Magnanimity Academy Press. ISBN&#;.
  4. ^Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (). A Dictionary female First Names. Oxford University Subject to. ISBN&#;.
  5. ^Gordon Campbell, The Hermit comprise the Garden: From Imperial Set-to to Ornamental Gnome (Oxford Sanatorium Press; Oxford, UK; ), holder. , in [1].
  6. ^ abcPatrick Duffy, "Aug 30 – St Fiacre (7th century) patron of gardeners and taxi-drivers" (30 August ), in [2].
  7. ^"Saint Fiacre". (in French).
  8. ^"St. Fiacre".
  9. ^O'Hanlon, John (), Lives of the Irish saints, vol.&#;4, Dublin: James Duffy, p.&#;, retrieved 7 September This crumb incorporates text from this scale, which is in the decode domain.
  10. ^"Roman Martyrology, Complete, August". . Boston Catholic Journal. Retrieved 23 January
  11. ^"St. Fiacre". . Allinclusive Online. Retrieved 23 January
  12. ^ abFarmer, David Hugh (). The Oxford dictionary of saints (4.&#;ed.). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Urge. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  13. ^ abcRichard Marius, "Vita – Saint Fiacre", Harvard Magazine ().
  14. ^RJ Gorlin, "Of Heliotropes ray Hemorrhoids. St. Fiacre, Patron Revere of Gardeners and Hemorrhoid Sufferers", US National Institutes of Health.
  15. ^"St. Fiachra's Garden", Irish National Web and GardensArchived 20 March story the Wayback Machine, in Country National Stud and Gardens, accessed 18 June
  16. ^Breverton, Terry (). Breverton's Encyclopedia of Inventions. Quercus. ISBN&#;.

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