v28_0788 - SAINT-YRIEIX-LA-PERCHE (Haute-Vienne) (SANCTO-AREDIO) Triens, BAVDELEFIVS monétaire

SAINT-YRIEIX-LA-PERCHE (Haute-Vienne) (SANCTO-AREDIO)

(7th - 8th century)

Excavations carried out in Saint-Yrieix attest to the existence of a state center from the 1st century AD.. At the end of the 5th century, under the reign of Clovis, the agrarian establishment of Attanum belonged to an aristocratic Limousin family whose leader was named Mona Lisa.. He had three children: Eustade, Concordia and Arédius who was to become Yrieix by oral deformation. Born in Limoges around 510, Arédius chose to enter the ecclesiastical state; miracles marked his life. When his father died, he returned to his estate and established a monastic community there.. The monastery succeeded the "urban villa" and led directly to the village of the High Middle Ages. From the end of the 6th century, the property of Attane and its outbuildings already formed a fairly large village whose life, well organized, was to lead the site to prosperity.. According to Gregory of Tours (contemporary of Arédius who brought back his life), foreigners crowded at the doors of the monastery like bees at the walls of a hive.. Arédius thus lived in his monastery, dividing his life between work in the fields and the study of divine things, curing every day by new miracles the sick who came in droves to him, and only leaving his cell to go on pilgrimage.. At his death, he bequeathed all his property to the monastic community he had created and which would have custody of his tomb.. http://saint-yrieix. Fr.