Vincent (of Zaragoza) is a famous Saint, a Spanish deacon and martyr from the 4th century. He preached under the Roman Empire at a time when the emperors Diocletian, and then Maximilian, persecuted massively the Christians. In 304, Vincent was sentenced to death and tortured on a wine press chest, which might explain that he became the saint patron of vintners (symbol of the blood having flown on the press instead of wine, with a play of words in French: “vin”=wine+”sang”=blood). But another legend has it that Vincent, having stopped on a Spring day by a vineyard to chat with the vintner, his donkey grazed some vine shoots and the vines thus “pruned” later yielded an excellent harvest. Saint Vincent is celebrated on 22 January, an ideal time between vinification and pruning, when the vine and the vintners are at rest. His relics were worshipped during several centuries and transported all over Europe. They were finally deposited in Paris, at the Sainte Croix-Saint Vincent Abbey, now Saint Germain des Pr\u00e9s. <\/p>\n\n
Many wine brotherhoods organize celebrations around Saint Vincent’s day. Here are some examples in 2015 :<\/p>\n\n
Archiconfr\u00e9rie des Vignerons de Champagne (Champagne region)<\/strong> Chevaliers du Tastevin<\/strong> (Burgundy) Commanderie du Bontemps<\/strong> (M\u00e9doc-Graves-Sauternes-Barsac) (Bordeaux) Commanderie du Clos Montmartre<\/strong> Confr\u00e9rie Vigneronne d’Orl\u00e9ans-Cl\u00e9ry<\/strong> (Val de Loire) Conseil des Echansons de France<\/strong> Les Fins Gousiers d’Anjou<\/strong> (Val-de-Loire) Ordre des Chevaliers Bretvins<\/strong> (Pays Nantais) Ordre Illustre des Chevaliers de M\u00e9duse<\/strong> (Provence) Vincent (of Zaragoza) is a famous Saint, a Spanish deacon and martyr from the 4th century. He preached under the Roman Empire at a time when the emperors Diocletian, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wine-and-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Guide-FICB.png","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}