11 juin 2007
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)
Frontenat, Saint-Pierre fountain
With
the Frontenat locality, on the commune of Archignat, the Saint-Pierre
fountain is an old called druidic crowned source Font Ana. Then the
Romans made a worship with Dispater of it. 
It
was christianized and it is now surmounted by a niche sheltering the
statue of Pierre Saint. One soaked the statue in the fountain to obtain
the rain.
It runs close to the Saint-Pardoux vault and is regarded as sovereign against the evils of belly.
The Fountain of St Pardoux
The
fountain of Pardoux Saint collects water of a ferruginous source of the
commune of Theneuille. One allotted to the water of this fountain of
many property, in particular of youth and digestion.
It is not
exploited any more today, however, a pump always exists at the entry
for your making it possible to taste with all the benefits of this
water.
Saint Pardoux would have made it spout out by striking the ground of his stick to water the assoifés pélerins.
Freydefond, in Mazirat
Freydefont,
in toponymy auvergnate, would like to say “fraiche source”. It is true
that water is fraiche there, and that our friends batrachians are not
mistaken there. 
But
there, we have to make in Freydefond, and Freyda is not far. Water
flows dry stone well in an old laundrette, which, if I believe about it
my felt, does not go back to today. It seems to to me that the places
are kept, and that a door accomodates us.
Beaune-of Allier, Saint-Aignan fountain
Beaune-to
Allier comes from Belna, of the name of Belenos (Gallic god),
unquestionable site of a temple with Bélénos and Minerve on a source
with the site of the Saint-Porcien vault.
The Saint-Aignan fountain is also a christianized Gallic crowned source which cured the ocular diseases.
Saint
Aignan was born in a noble Christian family, refugee in Vienna. Young
person, it was made hermit in a cave of the area, then it was placed
under the control of Saint Euverte, bishop of Orleans. He was abbot of
the monastery of Saint-Laurent-of-Orgerils then succeeded Saint Euverte
into 391. He saved his city besieged by Huns of Attila. Many miracles
were done on its behalf.
The fountain of Chateloy
Occupied
since prehistory, the site of Chateloy was place of worship druidic,
before the establishment of the Gallo-Roman city of Cords.
The virgin with the child presenting a bunch of grape is out of
sandstone of Alsace. Work of ceramist A. Wattel, it was initially
installed in the small apse of the church. Thereafter, a site being
appropriate better for its dimensions was found close to the old
laundrette and the contiguous well. Inspiration, when you hold us…
http://herisson.planet-allier.com/eglise/eglise.htm
Vault-with-Huntings
Sainte
Anne is the owner of the commune and the church. Not far from the
central place, while leaving on the line the church, at the end of a
small way, the fountain Holy-Anne is. She probably flows in a basin
Gallic time. The statue of holy, in its niche, is of invoice much more
recent…
We are in the presence of the old worship with the Ana goddess. The water of the fountain is famous to cure the ocular diseases. Look at-well!
“As
the Janus god who had two faces, Ana is not only one goddess of the
fertility, but also a goddess of death, underground world and beyond,
which reigns on the marshes (ana, into Gallic), considered like the
entry of the hells. Goddess of the life and death, it is at the same
time, like the ground itself, symbol of fruitfulness and decomposition,
all being born from the ground and turning over to the ground.
The
worship of the Ana goddess remained either in the worship of Marie, in
particular as “a black virgin”, or in that of holy Anne, mother of
Marie. When François Villon requests Marie by appointing it “emperière
of the infernal fens”, he recalls that Marie reigns, like Dana, on the
underground world, whose marshes are an access.
Easter Sunday 776,
the day of the dedication of the cathedral of Apt, in the presence of
Charlemagne, was found, says one, the body of Anne. A blind man, deaf
person and dumb man of birth, started to excavate the ground as if it
sought something. One dug at once at this place, and one discovered an
underground, enlightened vault by a lamp. The disabled person
miraculeusement was miraculeusement cured and one found in the
underground vault a mounting carrying the inscription: “Difficulty is
corpus beatae Annae matris virginis Mariae” (Here the body of happy
Anne is, mother of the Virgin Mary). 
It
is starting from the cathedral of Apt where the relics of holy had been
discovered that its worship seemed to develop in Europe. However, the
devotion with holy Anne, very strong in Brittany and very definitely
identifiable in Switzerland, is certainly older than this discovery.
Let us remember to understand it that none the Gospels names the
parents of Marie. “http://www.arbredor.com/edh/dieux.html
Ana, also known under the names of Anna, Dana, Anu, Danu (or Dôn in Wales), is the “Goddess-Mother” in Celtic mythology, it which gives its name auxTuatha Dé Danann, people of the Dana goddess, in the Irish tradition.
Fountain St Rémy in Saint Sauvier
The
parish of Saint-Sauvier, in extreme cases To combine it and of Hollow,
was founded at the beginning of VIème century, into 501, by Saint Remi,
came in the country following the armies from Clovis, in order to drive
out the Visigoths.
There
was already in this place a very old, Celtic or Gallo-Roman source.
Remi saint, says one, to put an end to the practices idolâtres, blesses
the source, and with its water, cures those which came to him. The
inhabitants, struck by these miracles, destroyed the crowned enclosure
of the sanctuary and raised a vault.
The
current vault, dedicated to Jean-baptiste, was built at the XVIIème
century on the fountain. Of high flow, it flows in a empierré basin.
The source leaves under the nave, or is, in a niche located at the top
of the fountain, a statue of Marie-madeleine. 
It
pourait being the witness of the festivals of the on June 24, summer
solstice, when formerly, crowd came to drink water and to bathe, in
order to cure ocular rheumatisms and diseases. These festivities were
prohibited by the church in 1827, which did not prevent the visits. The
site always is very attended, and a mass is known as there Sunday which
follows on June 24, followed by a blessing of the fountain.
The flow of the source is always the same one, and celà in all seasons. And its water never freezes…
Fountain St Patrocle in Colombier
In
addition to the church, the devotion with Patrocle saint is centered on
the fountain. This water, always fresh, is famous to have therapeutic
virtues. The legend reports that this one lacking water when it built
the monastery, it launched a hammer of such force that it fell down to
nearly 300 meters by creating the source. Others call the place “the
hammer of Thor”. However, it is Sucellus, the Gallic god, who would
have been placed best: “Sucellus, god with the mallet and the cauldron,
guard of fruitfulness, it makes spout out the woodland sources by
striking the ground of its mass. It was compared to Sylvain or Vulcan.
One represents it in the shape of an old man or a man of ripe age, vêtu
with Gallic of a tunic with hood, braies and boots, and carrying a
mallet and sometimes a cauldron, often accompanied by a dog. It is
often accompanied by the Nantosvelta goddess. Contrary to the other
Gallic gods, who have their equivalent in Ireland and in Wales, one
finds it only in Gaule. ”
The source is famous for the cure of the
skin diseases and so that the girls to be married find a partner. It is
enough for celà that they soak twice their foot right in the last
basin. A procession with the fountain takes place last Sunday of July.
The pélerinage with Saint Patrocle, survival probable of a Gallic
worship, ceased only in 1970.
Born in the area from Bourges, Patrocle intruisit very quickly in
sciences, the letters crowned and profane. The bishop of Bourges
ordered it deacon at the twenty-five years age, then archdeacon. One
regarded it as one of the most cultivated holiest men and of his time.
Become
the tutor of wire of Clodomir, king of Frank, it had been able to live
at the court, to be one of the advisers of the kingdom. The honors did
not try it, a sumptuous existence was not appropriate for its
character. The secular clergy appeared to him even too much attached to
the wordly goods. It had the burning desire to be devoted only to God
and it was withdrawn in loneliness, there to live, request, meditate. Caption of Patrocle Saint
It
stopped in Neris where it built a house, an oratory and a school. The
cures which it operated were worth him the reputation of holiness.
Seeking loneliness, it left with its spade and its axe to two edges,
and settled as a hermit with That, in the forest. Ten years later, it
set out again for Colombier where it melted a monastery. The monastery
was sold to the priory of Souvigny to XIème century.
We
thus have there a saint carrying the francisque one, or the expensive
hammer with the Scandinavian gods, a miraculous source, i.e. mud-laden
water, the hermitage in the forest, the hind partner of the saint… Here
are many ingredients leaving paraitre a bottom of druidism. When with
the shape of the fountain itself, with its three basins, round,
rectangular square and, us y plunged here. The waves of form of the
basins make the remainder.
One can see, in the first basin of round form, the water which bubbles.
the
place was christianized, but of very beautiful trees still surround
this miraculous fountain which flows in the field downwards.
With the Saint-Patrocle fountain, christianization of an old pagan
worship, probably with Dispater, L one thus finds the remainders
preserved well of collectings Gallo-Roman of the source.
The collecting of the source is a Gallic well of beams, as in Voingt.
The fountain-laundrette in Louchy-Montfand
the Saint-Pourçain fountain is presented in the form of a laundrette at the very old basin, in perfect state.
Water
is abundant there and of very good quality. It was built where the body
of the saint would initially have been buried. Its water relieves the
burns.