Ibid.

Family

Wire of Nectardus, noble a frankly, and of Protagia, noble a Gallo-Roman E. Twin brother of Gildard saint, Archbishop of Rouen.

History

Saint Medard expresses a great compassion for the most stripped as of its tightening Enfance more. It is told that it gave one day its Habit S new to a Mendiant blind man almost Nu and that when one asked him what it had done of his clothes, it answered that it had been touched by the Misère of this poor fellow and had not been able to prevent oneself from giving him its clothes. Another time it gave one of the Chevaux whose his/her father had entrusted the guard to him to a poor fellow who had just lost to it his with the Tâche and did not have the means of buying another of them. But the evening when it brought back the horses to its father and that this one counted them it did not miss any of it.

It made its study S ecclesiastics with his brother with Vermand (today Saint-Quentin).

Annals say that him and his/her brother assisted holy Remi at the time of the baptism of Clovis in the cathedral of Rheims in 496.

In 530 at the time of the death of the bishop of Vermand, it was named in its place by the holy bishop Remi of Rheims. It transferred in 531 évêché from Vermand to Noyon (the surest place of the area) owing to the fact that the area underwent the attacks Barbare S of the Huns.

In 532 with died of saint Éleuthaire bishop of Turned, the inhabitants of this city claimed it as bishop. He refused initially but the king Clotaire insisted and he accepted. He was then named by the pope Hormisdas with the episcopate of Turned, unifying the Diocèse Turned with that of Boundary-line (union which lasted until the year 1146). In Tournai it succeeds in converting a great number of idolâtres.

He died in Noyon, his relics were transported close to Soissons where was set up the Abbaye of Saint M3edard's Day. Relics of Medard saint were preserved in the church Saint M3edard's Day and are there still.

The legend

The legend says that when he was child, he was protected from the rain by a eagle which opened its wings with the top of him.

It is refers to Medard saint in the Golden Legend of Jacques de Voragine: “About year 490… flowered two uterine, holy brothers Medard and Gildart, which were born the same day, died the same day and was béatifiés the same day”.

The iconography

One represents it most of the time as a bishop, with the episcopal stick. Often also, it with the half-opened mouth and shows its teeth, because it was also called upon against the tooth ache. In addition to its representation with an eagle flying over it, it also appears with a heart, symbolizing its charity.

Patronage

Owner of the Farmer S, maker of rain. The Migraine S, the Neuralgia S, the treatment of the Mental diseases, the Folie were also of its spring.

Proverbs

Holy large Medard pissard, it rains forty days later.

If it rains in the Saint M3edard's Day, it rains later forty days,

unless holy Barnabé does not give him a kick or the grass under the foot does not cross to him.

Pluie in the Saint M3edard's Day will last forty days later, unless it holy Barnabé does not come to cut the nose to him (the tap does not close).

Sun with the Saint-Barnabe, Medard has the broken nose.

Holy Barnabe reboutonne breeches of Medard saint.

Holy Barnabe, the pale day of Medard saint, repurchases.

It is again holy Medard who waters his foalta.

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