TOKEN-MEDAL OF SAINT PLIFIER in gilded copper alloy (brass), facing the central portrait of the Saint in his robe. Legend in capital letters: "Ioannes Dei Plidier - Sursum Corda". Reverse of the portrait of Vauban on a view of the fort of Brisach with a cross of the Holy Spirit. Legence in capital letters: "Vauban - Brisach - Plifier - M.DC.LXIIII (1664)". Diameter: 320 mm (Wear, scratches) Jean de Dieu Plifier, known as Saint Plifier - Legendary patron of simplicity. A legendary figure at the crossroads of history spirituality and humour, Jean de Dieu de Dieu Plifier is reputed to have been born in 1632 near Pechpeyrou, in a family of small nobility nobility. Legend has it that he was inspired by Saint Vincent de Paul and the thinkers thinkers of the French School of Spirituality. He distinguished by a great practical spirit, a generous culture and an assiduous practice of common common sense. In May 1652, during the Fronde and the siege of of Etampes, he was reputed to accompany Mazarin and Louis XIV at the Château du Mesnil-Cornuel (now Mesnil-Voysin Mesnil-Voysin, where his legend took root). He defended clarity of mind, coherence between thought and action thought and action, and Trinitarian love as the foundation of all ordered life. Saint Plifier is considered the patron saint of all those who, in a complex world complex world, to rediscover the path of enlightened simplicity. Saint Plifier is one of this cohort of saints forgotten saints like Thèse (whose spirit is being lost), Cère and Pathie.