Many illnesses have saints assigned in their mind like St. Bartholomew for Parkinson's Disease and St. Vitus for chorea. The herky-jerky ailment was once called St. Vitus Dance. Not to be outdone hemorrhoid sufferers also have a patron. He is an Irish-born monk named St. Fiacre. He hailed from the County of Kilkenny in the province of Leinster in the south east corner of the country in the late sixth or early seventh century. He lived his early life in a hermitage where he became renowned as a holy man, a herbalist, and a healer. Because of the saintly qualities he developed an extensive following.
For reasons uknown, Fiacre became unsettled and decided - like so lots of his fellow countrymen - to emigrate, to leave the Emerald Isle and settle elsewhere. He crossed the ocean and immigrated into Meaux in the province of Brie, France (near current Paris.) There, he was well received by Faro, the neighborhood bishop (now a saint), who assigned him land in Brodolium (modern Breuil.) As time passes Fiacre built a hospice, and an oratory, and another cell for himself. It is said he lived a life of great mortification - of prayer, fast, vigil, manual labor in his garden, and healing the sick, particularly hemorrhoid sufferers. Hemorrhoids were called "Saint Fiacre's illness" in the Middle Ages and he may have experienced them himself. It's said this one day he sat sorrowfully on a stone and that stone softened providing him relief of the sort that may be obtained with remarkable hemzem.
There is also a relatively different version of how St. Fiacre became the patron saint of hemorrhoids and how hemorrhoids were called St. Fiacre's Curse. When St. Fiacre first arrived in Meaux, it's said, Bishop Faro decided to offer him land but didn't much take care of him. So he gave St. Fiacre a particularly small shovel and told him he would have most of the land he could clear in a single day. St. Fiacre went along to work and toiled so difficult to increase his holding he developed a significant case of prolapsed hemorrhoids. He then sat on a stone and prayed, seeking guidance, and a resolution to his situation. Miraculously his hemorrhoids vanished
Copropo Ev ist ein Zusammenschluss koloproktologisch tätiger Aerzte im Bereich Bochum,Herne,Hagen, Recklinghausen and legend has it that the imprint of his hemorrhoids stick to the stone to the day. Legend also offers it that any hemorrhoid sufferer who sits on the stone and prays today will be cured. St. Fiacre lived in Breuil until his death in 670 and his relics are installed in Meaux cathedral. His feast day is September 1.
It's not known why an Irishman could have been declared the patron saint of hemorrhoids - apart from the myths recounted here - considering that the Irish don't appear to suffer from hemorrhoids anymore than any other ethnic group. By some estimates about 15% of Irish have the ailment at any given time, and about 50% of the people are affected the illness in their lifetime. Anyhow, the Irish belatedly decided to offer St. Fiacre the recognition richly as a result of him some 14 centuries after his death. In 1999, they created a picturesque shrub garden at the Irish National Stud in Tully County Kildare and dedicated it to him. That is very much appreciated by the jockeys who are wont to find respite there.
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