Also
known as
Ivo of Ramsey
Ive…
Ives…
Ivia…
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Bishop. Hermit at
Huntingdonshire, England.
The city of Saint Ives (formerly Slepe), Huntingdonshire (modern
Cambridgeshire), England is
named for him. His gravesite was lost for years, but in 1001 four
bodies were uncovered in an unmarked grave; one bore a bishop‘s
insignia. A local layman had
a vision that this was the body of Ivo, and all four were translated to the
Ramsey Abbey. A
spring soon appeared near the site of their interment, its waters known for
healing miracles.
A later vision convinced the brothers at Ramsey to keep the relics with
the bishop‘s
seal, and return the bodies of the three companions to Slepe.
Huntingdonshire, England of
natural causes
Saint
Ives, Cambridgeshire, England
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MLA
Citation
“Saint Ivo of
Huntingdonshire“. CatholicSaints.Info. 11 August 2023. Web. 9 September
2026. <https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ivo/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ivo/
Wall
of the former Benedictine priory in Priory Road, St Ives, Cambridgeshire
(formerly Huntingdonshire)
Book of
Saints – Ivo of Huntingdonshire
Article
(Saint) Bishop (April 24)
(Date uncertain) A Saint said to have been of Persian nationality, but who is
of uncertain history. He came to England, it is alleged, at the end of the
sixth century, and lived in Huntingdonshire. Miracles wrought at his tomb bore
witness to his sanctity ; and his body was solemnly enshrined in Ramsey Abbey
(April 24, A.D. 1001). The town of Saint Ives in Huntingdonshire takes its name
from him.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Ivo”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
11 September 2013. Web. 9 September 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-ivo-of-huntingdonshire/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-ivo-of-huntingdonshire/
Ivo of Huntingdonshire,
Hermit B (AC)
(also known as Ivia, Yvo)
Date unknown. According
to medieval legend, Saint Ivo was a Persian bishop who enjoyed great honor and
luxury in his own land but he yearned for a more disciplined and arduous life.
Together with three companions he went to England. They settled as a hermits in
the remote, wild fenlands in Huntingdonshire. There they died (in the 7th
century according to the legend), and would have been forgotten.
However, about 1001, this
story was attached to some bones with a bishop's insignia found in Slepe (near
Ramsey abbey). Saint Ivo may have had no historical existence, though Saint
Ives in Huntingdonshire is named for him. Goselin ("Vita S. Yvonis"
in Patrologia Latina, ed. J. P. Migne, civ. 84 ff), who died about 1107, says that
Ivo's cultus had been extant for a century. Following a peasant's dream, these
episcopal bones were unhesitatingly identified as those of Ivo.
The four bodies,
including those presumed to be Ivo, were translated to Ramsey Abbey, where a
holy well sprung up, at which many miracles were performed as recorded by
Ramsey's third abbot, Whitman. About a century later, light appeared at night
reaching from Ramsey to Slepe, which was interpreted as meaning that the bones
of Ivo's companions should be translated back to Slepe, where a new foundation
from Ramsey could enjoy this subsidiary shrine.
The Saint Ives, formerly
Porth Ia, in west Cornwall, however, is named for Saint Ia (Attwater,
Benedictines, Bentley, Farmer, Husenbeth).
In art, Saint Ivo is
portrayed as a Persian hermit with the attributes of a bishop. He is venerated
at Huntingdonshire (Saint Ives, Ramsey) (Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0424.shtml
Butler’s
Lives of the Saints – Saint Ivia, or Ivo, Bishop
Article
He was a Persian bishop,
who preached the faith in England about the same time with Saint Austin, in the
seventh century; and having for some time prepared himself for his last
passage, by solitude, watching, prayer, and fasting, at Slepe, now Saint Ive’s,
in Huntingdonshire, he there died and was buried. His body was found by a
ploughman, in a pontifical habit and entire, in 1001, on the 24th of April. By
the fame of miracles performed at his relics, many resorted to the place, and a
Benedictin priory was there built, though the saint’s body was soon after
translated to the great abbey of Ramsey. Whitman, the third abbot at Ramsey,
wrote a book of the miracles wrought at his tomb, which was afterwards
augmented by Goscelin, a monk of Canterbury, about the year 1096. Pope
Alexander V granted a license to build a church to his honour, in Cornwall,
where his name was famous, and is given to a parliamentary borough.
MLA
Citation
Father Alban Butler.
“Saint Ivia, or Ivo, Bishop”. Lives of the
Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, 1866. CatholicSaints.Info.
24 April 2013. Web. 10 December 2020. <https://catholicsaints.info/butlers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-ivia-or-ivo-bishop/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/butlers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-ivia-or-ivo-bishop/
Saint of the Day – 23 April – St Ives of Huntingdonshire (6th-7th Century) Bishop
Saint of the Day – 23
April – St Ives of Huntingdonshire (6th-7th Century) Bishop, Missionary. Born
in the 6th Century in Persia and died in Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire)
England of natural causes. Also known as – Ivo of Ramsey, Ive… Ives… Ivia…
Yves. Additional Memorial – 10 June in St Ives.
Ives was born in the 6th
Century, in Persia, of a noble family and became a Missionary and then the
Bishop of Huntingdon in England.
He dedicated himself to
itinerant preaching, on the model of St Paul the Apostle, first in Asia Minor
and in Illyria (historical region of the Balkan Peninsula which became a Roman
Province in 228).
On his travels, he passed
through Rome and from there he arrived in France where he had great success,
honoured by the King, the nobles and the people; perhaps from him the name Ives
(Yves) began to establish itself more in France.
But Ives, wanting to
refuse all the honours paid to him for his evident sanctity, went with three
companions to England, where he worked fruitfully for several years in Mercia
(one of the seven Kingdoms, founded by the Anglo-Saxons in the second half of
5th Century) finally establishing his residence in the City of Sleve, now St
Ives, three miles from Huntingdon. It seems he was appointed as the Bishop
although it is uncertain when. After several years of his pastoral apostolate
among those populations, he died at the beginning of the 7th Century.
His Relics were
miraculously discovered in 1001 and transferred to the Benedictine Abbey of
Ramsey, the new name of Huntingdon his ‘Life’ from which subsequent biographies
arose, was written by the Monk Goscelin of Westminster in 1091 on behalf of
Abbot Erebert.
His celebration is on 24 April and 10 June.
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Choir
and transepts of St Ive Parish Church in St Ive, Cornwall.
The church was constructed c. 1338 and was modernized in the 19th century. The
church is probably dedicated to St Ive (also called St Ivo), a
supposedly Persian bishop whose body was found in St Ives, Huntingdonshire. See Nicholas
Orme: The Saints of Cornwall, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-820765-4, p. 148–149.
Original description by Phil Williams: A view looking west to the church
at St.Ive Church End.
La
chiesa dedicata a Sant'Ivo in Cornovaglia.
Sant' Ivo Vescovo in Inghilterra
Persia, VI sec. – Sleve (Inghilterra), VII secolo
Il nome Ivo è molto diffuso in Europa, prendendo secondo i luoghi delle varianti, così in Italia è Ivo o Ivone, in Spagna Ivo o Ivano, Yves in Inghilterra e Francia. Proviene quasi certamente dal celtico ‘ivos’ che vuol dire ‘legno di tasso’; il tasso, infatti, per i Celti era un’albero sacro, con cui venivano fabbricate sia le armi sia le abitazioni.
Ebbe un particolare sviluppo in Francia, soprattutto in Bretagna, nell’VIII secolo, diffondendosi poi in tutta Europa. Con questo nome, oltre al santo che menzioniamo in questa scheda, abbiamo due celebri santi, ambedue francesi, che furono vanto e onore del loro tempo: s. Yves vescovo di Chartres (1040-1116), che si celebra il 23 dicembre e s. Yves Hélory de Kermartin (1235-1303), sacerdote e avvocato, che si celebra il 19 maggio.
S. Ivo, denominato vescovo in Inghilterra, era nato nel secolo VI, originario della Persia, appartenne ad una nobile famiglia e divenuto vescovo, si dedicò ad una predicazione itinerante, sul modello di s. Paolo apostolo, prima nell’Asia Minore e nell’Illiria (regione storica della Penisola Balcanica fra l’Istria ed i Monti Certuni, divenuta nel 228 provincia romana).
Poi nel suo viaggiare,
passò per Roma e da lì giunse in Francia dove ebbe un grande successo, onorato
dal re, dai nobili e dal popolo; forse da lui il nome Ivo cominciò ad
affermarsi maggiormente in Francia.
Ma il vescovo volendo
rifiutare tutti gli onori che gli venivano tributati per la sua evidente
santità, passò con tre compagni in Inghilterra, dove lavorò fruttuosamente per
parecchi anni nella Mercia (uno dei sette regni, “eptarchia”, fondati dagli
anglosassoni nella seconda metà del V secolo), fissando infine la sua residenza
nella città di Sleve (St-Yves) a tre miglia da Huntendun, dove dopo svariati
anni di apostolato fra quelle popolazioni, morì agli inizi del VII
secolo.
Le sue reliquie furono
prodigiosamente scoperte nel 1001 e trasferite nell’abbazia benedettina di
Ramsey (Huntingdonshire); la sua ‘Vita’ da cui sono scaturite le biografie
successive, fu scritta dal monaco Goscelino di Westminster nel 1091 per
incarico dell’abate Ereberto.
La sua celebrazione è al
24 aprile e al 10 giugno.
Autore: Antonio
Borrelli
