Saint-Méry () is a
commune in the
Seine-et-Marne
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department in the
ÃŽle-de-France
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region
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in north-central
France
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.
History
Towards the end of the seventh century,
Saint Mederic, abbot of Saint-Martin d'Autun, set off on a pilgrimage to the tombs of
Saint Denis and
Saint Germain, in Paris, in the company of a young monk named
Frodulphe. The road was long because the abbot, aging and tired, had to stop often to take rest. It was thus that Mederic and Frodulphe halted at a deserted spot near Paris, where a chapel was then erected to commemorate the pilgrim abbe, whose charity, piety, and miracles had struck the people. Soon some houses came to group around the building placed under the name of Saint-Médéric said Saint-Merry, Saint-Merri or Saint-Méry.
[Vita S. Mederici - Jacques-Gabriel Bulliot, Essai historique de l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin d'Autun, chap. V, p. 83.]
File:Saint-Méry-église (2).jpg, church of Saint-Méry
file:Saint-Méry (77), pont de la RD 57 sur le rû de la Prée.jpg , bridge in Saint Mery
File:Saint-Méry (77), RD 57 3.jpg, Wash house in Saint-Méry
file:Saint-Méry (77), mairie, rue de l'Église 2.JPG , Saint-Méry Town Hall at 77 Church Street
Population
Inhabitants of Saint-Méry are called ''Médériciens''.
See also
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References
External links
1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région)
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Communes of Seine-et-Marne
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