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Catholic Church, Saint-Merri

Catholic Church, Saint-Merri is located beside the Georges Pompidou Center Beaubourg, rue de la Verrerie in the Marais, 4th arrondissement of Paris. The Holy Father Mederic died in 700, canonized and renamed Saint Merri, would be the origin of the name of Saint-Merri. The remains of the saint are in the crypt.

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Architecture

Flamboyant, no Renaissance in the inspiration, the Church is built on a plan similar to the Notre-Dame de Paris. Administered by seven canons of the cathedral it was even called the litle Notre Dame.

A contemporary place

Saint-Merri is a place of great spiritual and artistic influence. It holds regular concerts, theatrical performances and exhibitions. "It moves" in Saint Merri. In humanitarian terms, the parish welcomes groups of undocumented migrants in collaboration with the Association Network of Christian immigrants, the association SNC (new Solidarity to unemployment) and the" Association of Christian homosexuals David and Jonathan. It funds rentals of apartments to people in precarious situations and s "calls in the aid-development projects in developing countries.

philomena Legend

You will see a table of Amaury-Duval: the Legend of Philomena, painting of the beginning of the nineteenth century (fourth chapel). Philomena fell into disgrace in 1961 because its existence is not proven by catholic authorities. But Philomena continues to have fans. Martyrdom and virgin philomena is also called the beloved. Its name means child of light. She was martyred for refusing the proposals of the Roman Emperor Diocletian around year 300. Diocletian wanted to marry her. She refused because she wanted to devote her self to Jesus Christ. His father was a prince of Greece. He could not have a child and went to see a doctor in Rome. The intervention of the doctor gave birth to Philomène. When she is thirteen, the Greek prince must go see the emperor Diocletian in Rome to avert the risk of war. The Emperor watch the girl continuously. Fascinated, he gives peace to the prince, and the security of his army. But Philomena will not yield to the promises, enticements and threats. The demon of pride and lust take hold of Diocletian that will throw the generous child in chains in a dungeon. She will be flogged. Thrown into the Tiber with an anchor tied around his neck, and miraculously rescued. Finally, the archers her body will be riddled with arrows.

Saint Merry

The Miracle of the wafer, by Clement Belle, is a painting that evokes the desecration of holy wafers in Saint-Merri April 15, 1723. In Paris, this is not the first miracle of the "wafer". Read the History of Jonathas in 1290, which took place in the present rue des Archives.

History of a mysterious and central place

At this place was the chapel Saint-Pierre-des-Bois where it is said that the hermit Mederic (Medericus), abbot of Saint-Martin d"Autun, was installed in a cabin, where he was buried in 700. Gozlin, Bishop of Paris, exhumed and put the body in a shrine. The remains of Saint-Merri become holy relics and the Father promoted to patron saint of the right bank. Eudes Le Fauconnier, in the tenth century, took the decision to establish the church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Merri around the cult of the new Saint. The reconstruction of the church in the sixteenth century will find a skeleton, wearing gold leather boots, on which we read: "Here lies a gentleman of happy memory Eudes Le Fauconnier who founded this church." Saint-Merri became a parish in the early eleventh century. Attached to the Chapter of Notre Dame in 1005, it is required by the canons and enters the great family of the daughters of Notre Dame. While the other girls died, it was rebuilt in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The changes of the district of Les Halles and Beaubourg requires further work. Among his priest were Jean Beaupere, one of the judges of Joan of Arc, Pucelle d"Orleans. Celebrities such as Boccaccio and Saint Edmond, future Archbishop of Canterbury, were parishioners of Saint-Merri. Transformed into a saltpetre factory by the Revolution, theophilanthropists will transform it into the temple of commerce. As Philomena, she will return to Christ in 1803.

• The History of the Old Lady and Jonathas rue des Archives
• Saint-Merri church is demanding, it requires a small portion of the population to take care of her, on pain of being doomed to hell: see the legend.
• About theophilanthropists and Boccaccio, see also the rue des Lombards.