Anyone who has dipped into my blog from time to time will know me as a fan of the Saint from Montpellier who is the patron of sufferers of the Bubonic Plague and always pictured with his skirts in the air showing off his Buboes.

(painting by Carlo Crivelli in 1430)

My friend Robert was in Fontfroid Abbey last summer, which is about an hour to the south of Thezan. While there he met a group of four monks, who, at his request agreed to be photographed.
One of them (as you can see from the following picture) had a special devotion to St. Roch.

(photo Robert Hayes-McCoy)

(The truth of the matter is that these were a rather secular set of extras, involved in filming of a habit ripper in the abbey)

In the meantime his wife Anne found the real man lifting his skirt much more discreetly to a dog (which is normal) and a little mineature monk (rare) in a niche.

(photo Anne Swanton)

Thank you all three for the pictures.