Saint-Parres-with-Hillocks

Saint-Parres-with-Hillocks is a common French, located in the department of the Aube and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

The inhabitants of Saint-Parres-with-Hillocks are called Patroclien () S

Etymology of the place

Saint Patroclus - or called Holy Patrocle and thereafter Saint-Parres - would have given its name to the commune, as for Saint-Parres-the-Vaudes.

" in Tertres" would come that the hillock of Saint-Parres-with-Hillocks (where there exists a church on Gallo-Roman vestiges) would have been a place of execution. It could be that name comes quite simply from the hillocks present on the site (hillocks of grounds or vestiges of the Gallic/Celtic tombs).

Saint-Parres was decapitated and would have been it with Saint-Parre-with-Hillocks. Then it would have been raised and carried its head to speak.

History

Saint-Parres is located at two kilometers of Troyes, on the top of the hill called Mount-of-Idols, where holy Parres, noble citizen of Troyes, suffered martyrdom in year 275. It is in the place where it was buried that the Eusèbe archpriest, when the presécution had ceased, made build a vault become later a parish, under the patronage of Patrocle saint. The current church was built about the first years of XVIe century.

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See too

Common of the Paddle

External bonds

Saint-Parres-with-Hillocks on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Parres-with-Hillocks on the site of INSEE
Saint-Parres-with-Hillocks on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Parres-with-Hillocks on a chart of France and communes bordering
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