The patron saint of the marginalized, Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, was born in 1748 in the picturesque village of Amettes. He is better known as "God's Traveler." A French mendicant …
This picturesque village owes much of its fame to the birth of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, born in the village in 1748. It is also an essential stop on the religious route of the Via Francigena.