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1413-06-12-Montpellier

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Date startStart date of the disease. 1413-06-12 Saturday +
Date endEnd date of the disease. +
SeasonSeason (spring, summer, fall or winter)
Date otherOther mentioned dates.
PlacePlace(s), city or location of the disease. Agde, Hérault, Lodève, Montpellier
RegionHistorical region(s) Occitania
CountryCurrent country France
RiverMentioned river(s)
Natural eventMentioned natural event(s)
PersonMentioned persons(s)
GroupGroup(s) of people mentioned
VictimIndication of victims +
AnimalMentioned animal(s)
DiseaseMentioned disease(s) Plague
Epidemic waveAssociated epidemic wave
Social responseSocial response that happened in reaction to the disease Procession
LanguageLanguage of the original text Catalan
KeywordFurther keyword(s) Epidemics, Mortality, Procession
last edited 23. 12. 2025 by EpiMedDat-Bot.

A procession is organized in Montpellier to protect the city from the plague that rages in the region of Lodève and Agde.

Text originalOriginal text

Item, dilhus a XII del mes de jun, que fonc l’endeman de Pantacosta, se fes en esta vila una honorabla [...] per quatre ho per sinc cauzas : la una, que Nostre Senhor, per la sieuna sancta misericordia, lo poble d’esta vila vuelha preservar de mortalitat et de la pestilencia de la impedimia que renha de present en Lotves et en Agades et en diverses autres luox a nos circumvicis.

Text translationEnglish translation of the text

Monday, June 12 (1413), which was the day after Pentecost, was organized in our city a worthy, holy and devout general procession [...] for four or five grounds: the first, that Our Lord, by His holy mercy, will preserve the people of this city of death and of the plague epidemic which rages at present in Lodévois, Agathois and in various other places of our neighborhood.

References

  1. ^ Le Petit Thalamus de Montpellier 
  2. ^ Translation by Thomas Labbé 

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