Vivès

Vivès is a commune in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitania, southern France.

Geography

Vivès is located in the canton of Vallespir-Albères and in the arrondissement of Céret.

Population and society

Education

The school of Vivès had about 20 children in 1947 and only 8 in 1966, the year it was closed. Since then, the nearest school is in Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts.

Health

The village of Vivès seems to have benefited, at least until the beginning of the twentieth century, from a local family of healers, renowned through the whole department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
There are no doctors nor any pharmacy in Vivès nowadays, the nearest being in Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts. The nearest clinic is in Céret and the nearest public hospital is in Perpignan.

Famous Personages from Vives

Bl. Thomas of Vives, a Mercedarian Friar of the Sovereign and Royal Order of Our Lady of Mercy, who was imprisoned at Tunis, Tunisia in 1329, and executed by being stoned on March 14, 1324 for the crime of blaspheming the name of Muhammed. His portrait can be found at Cagliari, in Sardinia. He is considered a Saint in his order.