Fiacre, Saint

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | 629 words | Copyright

Fiacre, Saint. Historical (d. 670?) Irish saint, born Fiachra, who lived in exile at Breuil, Brie province, France: a patron of travellers and gardeners. The small hackney coach, the fiacre, derives more from the Hôtel de Fiacre, where one would be hired, than from his patronage; in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914), James Joyce facetiously makes Fiacre the patron saint of cab-drivers. Records indicate that in life Fiacre excluded women from his hermitage and chapel. He was long venerated for his miracles, and his shrine was established at Meaux by Anne of Austria, wife of King Louis XIII (1610–43).

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