Saint-Méry Explained

Saint-Méry
Commune Status:Commune
Coordinates:48.5781°N 2.8269°W
Insee:77426
Postal Code:77720
Arrondissement:Melun
Canton:Nangis
Mayor:Françoise Kubiak[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:CC Brie des Rivières et Châteaux
Elevation Min M:73
Elevation Max M:113
Area Km2:9.94

Saint-Méry (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ meʁi/) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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.[2]

Population

Inhabitants of Saint-Méry are called Médériciens.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 2 December 2020. fr.
  2. Vita S. Mederici - Jacques-Gabriel Bulliot, Essai historique de l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin d'Autun, chap. V, p. 83.