medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Jim,
You wrote:
>
> Thanks for this, but which Fiacre is this? The only one I know of is Fiacre of Meaux,
> indeed a gardener saint, but who was an Irish hermit who died in 670, almost a
> millennium before the time of Louix XIV.
Sorry, I should have noted this monk was a later Parisian namesake for
Fiacre of Meaux. This infant encounter was in 1637, but I was thinking
the common name might have connected their emblems in the art. The story
itself was from Antonia Fraser's Love and Louis XIV.
Mea culpa.
Chuck
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