Foutain Saint-Mayeul

Saint Mayeul was born in Avignon into 906, in a noble rich person family. After brilliant studies, it was made monk Benedictine and was abbot of Cluny from 948 to 991. He was a large reformer, friend of king Hugues Capet and emperors Othon Ier and Othon II. He managed to conceal himself when this last proposed the tiara to him pontifical, with died of assassinated Benoit VI.

In the commune of Brethon, the Saint-Mayeul vault, raised by the monks Benedictines, belonged to the priory of the Bottle, which depended on Cluny and would have sheltered of the monks as of IXème century. Before the revolution, it depended on Souvigny.

The Bottle was an enclave served by a way Roman and located in the most wild part of the Forest of Tronçais.
Although dedicated to Sainte Madeleine, the vault is the subject of a very active worship with Saint Mayeul who made spout out a miraculous fountain at this place. After does the consecutive destruction with the revolution, there remain only the apse dating from XIIIème century? (wall-belfry)

The fountain, of old masonry, runs of a clear water in a circular basin. It was donor of rain and one came there in procession until 1893. “The priest who led the procession advanced all at the edge of the fountain and the pilgrims launched large stones in water in order to moisten the church vestments.

The old ones affirmed that often while being turned over and by reaching the horn of wood, they were exaucés by the supervening of a beneficial downpour ".
The pélerinage takes place first Sunday of August. It is also considered to cure the furoncles. 

(“Saints which cures in Auvergne”, of Jean-Robert Maréchal, with the Ouest-France editions)