Saint-Merri
Église Saint-Merri is a Catholic parish church dedicated to Saint Mederic—better known as Saint Merri—an abbot of Autun Abbey who came to Paris on pilgrimage and died there in the year 700. Around 700, he was buried in a small chapel called Saint-Pierre-des-Bois on what was then a clearing, and by 884 he had been declared patron saint of the Right Bank of Paris. That local devotion became structural history: in about 890, Mederic’s remains were exhumed by the Bishop of Paris, Joscelin, and a richly made reliquary was created, prompting the church to be built to house it. As the neighborhood turned into an important commercial district, two earlier churches on the site—first built about 1200 and then outgrown again—couldn’t keep pace. The present building was begun under King François I around 1520 and finished around 1560, using a late Gothic, Flamboyant style despite the Renaissance setting. In 1753, the pulpit was made by P. A. …
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