Saint Méen in Haraucourt
On arriving in Haraucourt, you will pass a small chapel dedicated to Saint Méen. This saint of Welsh origin, who founded a monastery in Brittany, was the subject of a very popular pilgrimage here: up to 10,000 people at peak times. Saint Méen is a healing saint, prayed to for skin diseases. A "demoiselle de saint Méen" used to refer to someone with mange. Saint Méen's disease" was an expression used to describe a number of skin diseases that affected the hands in particular, "a horrible sort of scab" that was compared to leprosy. Anyone suffering from ringworm or scabies could make devotions to Saint Méen, who is sometimes nicknamed "Saint Teigneux".
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