Vivès

Vivès (French pronunciation: [vivɛs] ⓘ; Catalan: Vivers, [biˈβeɾs], [biˈβes]) is a commune in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitania, southern France.

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

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.

[5] There are no doctors nor any pharmacy in Vivès nowadays, the nearest being in Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts.

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.

Map of Vivès and its surrounding communes