Saint Madron
Ermite (+ v. 545)
Maden ou Madern.
Selon la légende, cet anglais aurait été ermite en Cornouailles où quelques églises portent son nom ainsi qu'une source (Madron's well)
Voir aussi la commune de Saint-Maden 22350:
En ce qui concerne le vieux Saint Breton 'St Maden', les spécialistes et historiens donnent deux versions:
- Assimilation à St Maudan, ce qui constitue la même origine que la paroisse de Plumaudan.
- Saint-Maden signifiant 'Mon Homme' selon le Pouillé de Tours, Province ecclésiastique dont faisait partie Saint-Maden à cette époque, et qui précise que Saint-Maden est serviteur de Saint-Goulven, un saint venu d’Écosse au VIIe Siècle.
Basin in the south-western corner of Madron Baptistry (Cornwall, U.K.)
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0517.shtml
St. Maden, or Madern, Confessor
HONOURED in Brittany, where he is patron of a parish
in the diocess of St. Malo: and probably of another in the same diocess, called
Plu-Mauden, as F. Lobineau takes notice. 1 His
name was also in the highest veneration in Cornwall, where he lived and died in
a hermitage near the Land’s-end, where a chapel which bore his name was long
famous for pilgrimages and miracles.
Among the miracles ascribed to St. Madern, that which
follows was attested by Dr. Joseph Hall, the Protestant bishop of Exeter, who
in his last visitation of this diocess before he was translated to the see of
Norwich in 1641, made a juridical and strict inquiry into all the circumstances
of this fact, and authentically declared the evidence of the miracle to be
incontestable. The strong prejudices and inveterate hatred against the Catholic
religion, which he discovers in his Dissuasive from Popery to W. D. revolted,
(viz. a late convert to the Catholic faith) and in many other parts of his voluminous
writings, and of which the history of his whole life is a constant proof,
render his testimony the more unexceptionable. In his treatise On the Invisible
World, 2 he
speaks of a miraculous cure wrought at St. Madern’s well, in the following
words: “The commerce that we have with good spirits is not now discerned by the
eye, but is, like themselves, spiritual. Yet not so, but that even in bodily
occasions we have many times insensible helps from them; in such manner as that
by the effects we can boldly say: Here hath been an angel, though we see him
not. Of this kind was that (no less than miraculous) cure which at St. Madern’s
in Cornwall was wrought upon a poor cripple, John Trelille, whereof (besides
the attestation of many hundreds of neighbours) I took a strict and personal
examination in that last visitation which I either did or ever shall behold.
This man, that for sixteen years together was fain to walk upon his hands, by
reason of the close contraction of the sinews of his legs, (upon three
admonitions in a dream to wash in that well,) was suddenly so restored to his
limbs, that I saw him able to walk and get his own maintenance. I found here
was neither art nor collusion: the thing done, the author invisible.”
Another writer, a curious searcher into nature, and of
great learning, who lived in that country about the same time, gives a fuller
account of the same miraculous cure, as follows: 3 “I
will relate one miracle more done in our own country, to the great wonder of
the neighbouring inhabitants, but a few years ago, viz. about the year 1640.
The process of the business was told the king when at Oxford, which he caused
to be further examined. It was this:—A certain boy of twelve years old, called
John Trelille, in the county of Cornwall, not far from the Land’s-end, as they
were playing at foot-ball, snatching up the ball ran away with it; whereupon a
girl in anger struck him with a thick stick on the back-bone, and so bruised or
broke it, that for sixteen years after he was forced to go creeping on the
ground. In this condition he arrived to the twenty-eighth year of his age, when
he dreamed that if he did but bathe in St. Madern’s well, or in the stream
running from it, he should recover his former strength and health. This is a
place in Cornwall from the remains of ancient devotion still frequented by
Protestants on the Thursdays in May, and especially on the feast of Corpus
Christi; near to which well is a chapel dedicated to St. Madern, where is yet
in altar, and right against it a grassy hillock (made every year anew by the
country people) which they call St. Madern’s bed. The chapel roof is quite
decayed; but a kind of thorn of itself shooting forth of the old walls, so
extends its boughs that it covers the whole chapel, and supplies as it were a
root. On a Thursday in May, assisted by one Periman his neighbour, entertaining
great hopes from his dream, thither he crept, and lying before the altar, and
praying very fervently that he might regain his health and the strength of his
limbs, he washed his whole body in the stream that flowed from the well, and
ran through the chapel: after which having slept about an hour and a half on
St. Madern’s bed, through the extremity of pain he felt in his nerves and
arteries, he began to cry out, and his companion helping and lifting him up, he
perceived his hams and joints somewhat extended, and himself become stronger,
insomuch, that partly with his feet, partly with his hands, he went much more
erect than before. Before the following Thursday he got two crutches, resting
on which he could make a shift to walk, which before he could not do. And
coming to the chapel as before, after having bathed himself he slept on the
same bed, and awaking found himself much stronger and more upright; and so
leaving one crutch in the chapel, he went home with the other. The third
Thursday he returned to the chapel, and bathed as before, slept, and when he
awoke rose up quite cured; yea grew so strong, that he wrought day-labour among
other hired servants; and four years after enlisted himself a soldier in the
king’s army, where he behaved himself with great stoutness, both of mind and
body: at length in 1644 he was slain at Lime in Dorsetshire.” The author takes
notice that Thursday and Friday were the days chosen out of devotion to the
Blessed Eucharist and the Passion of Christ.
Note 1. Hist. des Saints de la Bretagne, p.
11. [back]
Note 2. Bb. Hall on the Invis. World, l. 1, sect.
8. [back]
Note 3. Ex R. P. Francisci Conventr. Paralipom.
Philosoph. c. 4, p. 68. Referam adhuc unum miraculum in patrâ nostrâ paucis
abhinc annis, &c. [back]
Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume V:
May. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/5/173.html
Saint Madron of Cornwall
- Maden
- Madern
- Maderne
- Madon
- Medron
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/saint-madron-of-cornwall/
The church of St Maddern or Madernus at Madron. Madron parish church is the mother church of Penzance. Until the middle of the C19th the whole of Penzance was within Madron Parish. The importance of the church is reflected in the numerous impressive tombstones and vaults within the churchyard - see 1416730 and 1416720.
St. Madron of Cornwall, Hermit
(Maden, Madern)
Died near Land's End, Cornwall, c. 545. Saint Madron, a hermit in Brittany of Cornish descent, is the patron of many churches, including the site of his hermitage at Saint Madern's Well in Cornwall and two parishes in Saint-Malo. Many miracles are ascribed to Saint Madron, but still little is known about the saint except for the dedications in Cornwall and Brittany. He has been identified as Saint Medran (f.d. July 7), the disciple of Saint Kieran (f.d. March 5), the Welsh Saint Padarn (f.d. April 16), or a local man who accompanied Saint Tudwal (f.d. December 1) to Brittany (Attwater2, Benedictines, Coulson, Husenbeth).
Troparion of St Madern tone 2
Out of pagan darkness in the land of Cornwall/ thou
didst shine as a witness to Christ./ Holy hermit Madern, entreat Him/ that the
light thou didst kindle may ever shine in our hearts.
SOURCE : http://celticsaints.org/2014/0517a.html
Voir aussi : http://vingoe.name/madron_well.htm
