Saint Miter

Miter is a catholic Saint , born with Thessalonique, in Greece, 433, died in Aix-en-Provence in 466. It is honoured the November 13rd.

Life of the saint

According to the legend, Miter was born in Thessalonique, in Greece, in an easy family. At the twenty-four years age, it leaves his parents for the Provence in the hope to live there a life of charity and destitution. It became domestic at Arvendus, a Roman Préteur of Aix, which carried out a life dissolue with a woman who was not his. Anxious to bring back its Master in the right way, Miter frequently made him shame by its remarks about its put out of order manners. Arvendus started to test enmity with respect to its servant and to seek a pretext to lose it.

Arvendus had a Vigne in the west of the city of the Turns, in current the district of Saint-Miter. Miter was vine grower there. The praetor ordered with his servants to go to cause damage in his vine and to show Miter of it. Those night had removed all the Raisin S and had just pressed them in Cruche S, after which they went to complain with their Master about the fact that Miter had gathered all the grape of Arvendus and had made Vin of it that he had distributed to the poor. Whereas Arvendus pretends the fury, it precipitated in its vine and was amazed to note that this one was in charge with an abundant grape and great quality. The jugs full of wine were in fact vacuums.

Miter was shown of Sorcellerie and was thrown in the dungeon of a Roman tower, located at the site of the old palate comtal. He was decapitated in the court of the court. He collected his head then, tightened it against its chest and carried it to the furnace bridge of the church of Notre-Dame of Seds of which he was to become the owner. Lastly, it expired.

Worship post-mortem

Translation of saint Miter to the cathedral Saint-Saver

Its relics were transferred to the cathedral Saint-Saver the October 23rd 1383.

Origins in October 1383, Notre-Dame of Seds, or more precisely the St. Lawrence vault, located extra-muros , preserved the Reliques of Miter saint in a white marble tomb. The chapter deliberated on this date to transfer them to Saint-Saver. This translation was not done without the resistance of the parishioners of Notre-Dame of Seds and, on their behalf, Pons Maifredi, Vicaire of the church, came poster to the door from Cordeliers, which marked the entry of the city, in front of the person from the notary Raymond Chabaud who carried out the transfer of the relics. This last listened to the complaints of the vicar but laughs to him with the nose and passed in addition to. The remainder of the ceremony was held without disorders.

Miracles allotted to the relics of saint Miter

Gregoire de Tours brings back a miracle which would have been towards 566 on the tomb of the saint of the time of the archbishop of Aix Francon. The bishop had been despoiled Seigneurie of a village of Provence by one named Childéric, of the court of the king Sigebert, and relied on the courts, which decided on the débouter. Insane of rage, this one went to the tomb of saint-Miter and the access condemned some by depositing thistles and spines in front of the door of the church. After having spread rubbish on the tomb, it prohibits with whoever to address prayers to the saint and to burn Cierge S. to him.

As of the following day, the man who had charmed the seigniory was corroded by a strange evil which burned all the body to him and made him fall the Poil S. After having suffered one year, it agreed to return in Francon the village that it had taken to him. He offered a gold purse to Miter saint and died in the hour which followed.

Another miracle is allotted to the relics of the saint. It is said that the right column which supported its tomb was pierced with a hole which oozed constantly, secreting a sovereign liquid against the evils of eyes.

Worship during the centuries

With the the Middle Ages, Avignon de Nicolaï, archbishop of Aix (1422 - 1437) made build a vault in the honor of Miter saint, where he asked to receive a burial.

Under the Old Mode, the Inhabitants of Aix called their patron saint " saint Miter Guard-Vignes" and called upon it to have Vin on the foundations of a primitive rural vault, itself rebuilt in 1567, of which it remains ancient columns, an old well and a frame.

the cathedral Saint-Saver shelters a panel of the Légende of saint Miter , allotted to Nicolas Froment, towards 1470 - 1475.

Controversies

According to Paul Masson, it is not holy Miter which was martyrisé in Aix, but holy Démétrios, priest of Périnthe (in the north of the Marmara Sea).

References

Streets of Aix , Russet-red-Alphéran Ambroise, 1846-1848.

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