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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Fountain of Burle (Sainte Enimie) Alternative Name: The Burle Spring,Country: France
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Département: Languedoc:Lozère (48) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Florac Nearest Village: Sainte Enimie
Latitude: 44.366945N Longitude: 3.410268E
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Languedoc:Lozère (48)
At the north side of the village of St Enimie beside the Route de Mende (Sauveterre Causse) is the Fountain of Burle, a pre-Christian spring, which issues out of the cleft of a rock and flows into a large pool. The pool is coloured green by mosses and lichens and foliage around the edges. The spring then flows on south into the famous Tarn Gorge.
Here in the late 6th century AD, according to legend, St Enimie, daughter of King Clotaire II and sister of King Dagobert, was healed of leprosy. In thanks to God she founded a convent close where she became abbess, and was renowned for her saintliness. In later life she retired to a cave close by and lived out the last years of her life as a hermitess. She died in 628 AD.
The little chapel of Sainte Madeleine was later built inside the cave where she died, and her relics were placed here. Two hollow stones close by are apparently the saint's bed, and a large bolder called The Deaf Rock at Pas da Souci is said to have been rolled down the valley by St Enimie in order to crush the devil. The spring is still visited by the faithful and pilgrimages are held here on the saint's feast-day.
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