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Saint Fiacre (or Fiachra) was born in Ireland in the seventh century. He was better known in France, where he built a hospice for travellers in what is now Saint-Fiacre. His relics are installed in Meaux Cathedral. In Ireland his feast day is 1 September; elsewhere it is 18 August. Image File history File links Gloriole. ...
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Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. ...
Meaux is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. ...
September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ...
August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Patronage
He is the patron saint of: In several forms of the church of Christianity, but especially in Roman Catholicism, a patron saint has special affinity for a trade or group. ...
Taxi drivers The first horse-drawn carriages in France were offered outside the Hotel Saint-Fiacre in Paris. This later led to him becoming the patron of taxi-drivers and to the word fiacre becoming a word in the French language for a carriage. Taxicab, short forms taxi or cab, is a type of public transport for a single passenger, or small group of passengers, typically for a non-shared ride. ...
French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...
Venereal disease Fiacre was famously misogynistic, which, it is argued, is the reason he became connected with venereal disease sufferers. Misogyny () is hatred of or strong prejudice against women. ...
Sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), also known as sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), are diseases that are commonly transmitted between partners through some form of sexual activity, most commonly vaginal intercourse, oral sex, or anal sex. ...
Horticulturists The patron of horticulturists, outside his hospice Fiacre ploughed a very fertile garden, with only his walking stick. The Latin words hortus (garden plant) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. ...
Hemorrhoids The link between Fiacre and hemorrhoids in unclear. It is not even mentioned in the Catholic Encyclopedia[1], though it is included on the Catholic Forum.[2] The link existed in the 15th Century as records exist which claim that Henry V of England feared that his own hemorrhoids were caused by his troops destroying the shrine to Saint Fiacre at Meaux in France. Henry died on August 31, the day after the feast day of St. Fiacre, though the childrens history series, "Horrible Histories" says that on the feast day, 30 August, Henry's hemorrhoids became poisonous.[3] The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in 1913 by The Encyclopedia Press. ...
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Henry V, (August 9 or September 16, 1387 – August 31, 1422), King of England (1413-1422), son of Henry IV by Mary de Bohun, was born at Monmouth, Wales, in August or September 1386 or 1387. ...
Meaux is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. ...
August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining. ...
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References - Sacred Origins of Profound Things, by Charles Panati. ISBN 0-14-019544-0
- ^ St. Fiacre - The Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ FIACRE - Catholic Forum, Patron Saint Index. Fiacre is listed as the Patron Saint of barrenness; box makers; cab drivers; fistula; florists; gardeners; haemorrhoids; hosiers; pewterers; piles; taxi drivers; sterility; syphilis; tile makers; venereal disease
- ^ Horrible Histories - "Ireland" - Chapter 3, ‘Super Superstitions’
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