Mitre (433–466) was a

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, who was born in

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, and died in

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

Biography

According to the legend,célébrités d'aix-en-provence
Mitre, a field worker living in

with Arvendus, was charged with

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for making a

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come true. He was beheaded. He then picked up his head and took it to a church in Aix, Église Notre-Dame de la Seds. On 23 October 1383 his relics were moved to the Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur in Aix-en-Provence. It is said that the right-hand column holding his tombstone had a shining hole in it, giving out a liquid good for curing .

Saint Mitre to this day

*A chapel named after Saint-Mitre was built in Aix-en-Provence in the 17th century. *The Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur holds a painting by

Nicolas Froment Nicolas Froment (c. 1435, Uzès, Gard – c. 1486 in Avignon) was a French painter of the Early Renaissance. Nicolas Froment is one of the most notable representatives of the Second School of Avignon, (''École d'Avignon''), a group of arti ...

, ''Légende de saint Mitre'', dating back to 1470–1475. *

Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts (; oc, Sant Mitre dei Barris) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France. Population See also * Étang de Berre *Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department The following is a list of th ...

was named after him. *

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

mentions Saint Mitre in the first chapter of ''

La Fortune des Rougon ''La Fortune des Rougon'' ''(The Fortune of the Rougons)'', originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series ''Les Rougon-Macquart''. The novel is partly an origin story, with a large cast of charact ...

''.

References

*''Les Rues d'Aix'',

Ambroise Roux-Alphéran Ambroise Roux-Alphéran (1776–1858) was a French public official and historian. Biography Early life Ambroise(-Thomas) Roux-Alphéran was born on 29 December 1776 in Aix-en-Provence. Career He served as clerk of the court of Aix-en-Provence u ...

, 1846–1848. 433 births 466 deaths Ancient Thessalonians People from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 5th-century Christian saints {{Saint-stub