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PATRONAGE He is the Patron Saint of: Taxi drivers The first horse-drawn carriages in France were offered outside the Hotel Saint-Fiacre in Paris. This later led to him becoming the patron of Taxi-drivers and to ''fiacre'' becoming a word in the French Language for a carriage. Venereal disease Fiacre was famously Misogynistic , which, it is argued, is the reason he became connected with Venereal Disease sufferers. Horticulturists The patron of Horticulturists , outside his hospice Fiacre ploughed a very fertile garden, with only his walking stick. Hemorrhoids It is said that Fiacre became the patron of Hemorrhoid sufferers after taxi-drivers began to suffer from the complaint, after sitting down for so many hours at a time. REFERENCES # Sacred Origins of Profound Things, by Charles Panati. ISBN 0140195440 |
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