M0014119: Statue of Saint Fiacre

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Fiacre, Irish (or Scots).

Wooden statue of St Fiacre of Breuil (c.600-670) Irish saint who went to Gaul and founded an abbey at Breuil. Patron saint of gardeners and invoked against haemorrhoids, colic, cancer, fistula, headaches and veneral disease. The item was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R4731/1937).

1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provide an entry for the item: acc. number R4731/1937 (image 192)

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.