What’s in a name?
The problem, perhaps, was his fame for curing certain kinds of illness. As the medieval equivalent of modern hospital consultants, saints too used to specialise in different parts of the anatomy. Fiacre’s expertise, it seems, was in the genito-urinary and proctology departments.
A thousand years after Fiacre’s death, his reputation was still so strong that Cardinal Richelieu, a martyr to hemorrhoids, not only made the pilgrimage but tried to bring some of the saint’s relics home for private treatment. The hero of Agincourt is said by most history books to have died from dysentery. Even so, his demise happened 601 years ago tomorrow .
He is usually portrayed with a spade. But when, according to the legend, he was promised as much land for his monastery as he could dig a ditch around in a day, he used a divinely inspired ivory cane to do the work. Hence, two centuries later, the celebrated “fiacre scene” in Madame Bovary, where the doomed heroine is persuaded by her lover to take a cab drive around Rouen for purposes other than tourism.
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