Fiacre

Fiacre, or FIACRACH, ST., an Irish hermit who settled near Meaux in France, building a small monastery there. He died about 670, and from the 9th to the 17th century was famed as a worker of miracles, especially curing a kind of tumour. His shrine, ultimately deposited in the cathedral of Meaux, was long an object of pilgrimage. His name has been oddly perpetuated in connection with Cabs (q.v.) and Hosiery (q.v.).