  A spectacular order-order-like transition is presented in the distribution of
hagiotoponyms in France. Data analysis and displays distinguish male and female
cases. The respective hapax values point to a very large variety of saints with
a specific devotion. The most popular ones are St. Martin and the apostles. The
less popular ones are not so well known. These features are explained in terms
of herding in agent behaviors: people have either preferred popular saints with
supposedly good links to God, whence a herding behavior, or (non-herding)
agents have preferred to name their local human settlement through a reference
to some holy person(s) with more local specificities -- yet with moral or
religious leadership, and conjectured to have good contact with God, whence at
least locally defined as a saint.
