Statue de sainte Fare à la collégiale Saint-Martin de Champeaux.
Sainte Fare
Abbesse (7ème s.)
ou Burgondofare.
Abbesse de Faremoutiers*,
près de Meaux dans la Brie française, elle était burgonde d'origine.
Elle connut d'abord bien des oppositions paternelles à ses projets de devenir moniale
jusqu'au jour où Gondoald, évêque de Meaux et saint Eustase,
disciple de saint Colomban, décidèrent
le père à donner à sa fille la liberté de choisir la vocation de sa vie.
Sainte Fare se retira
d'abord à Champeaux puis dans une nouvelle maison qui prendra son nom:
Faremoutiers-77120.
*L’abbaye bénédictine
Notre-Dame et Saint-Pierre de Faremoutiers a été fondée vers 625 sur la colline
d’Eboriac, à deux lieues environ de Coulommiers, par Sainte Fare, sœur de
Saint Faron, évêque
de Meaux. Complètement ruinée à la révolution, elle a été rétablie en 1931.
Elle compte actuellement 8 moniales. (diocèse
de Meaux)
Au pays de Meaux, en 657,
sainte Fare, abbesse. Après avoir, pendant quarante ans, dirigé le monastère
d’Evoriacum, qui fut ensuite appelé de son nom Faremoutier, elle fut associée
dans la troupe des vierges qui suivent l’Agneau de Dieu.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/9507/Sainte-Fare.html
Sainte Fare
Fare ou Burgondofare dut
résister des années à la volonté de son père, le comte Agnéric, de la marier.
Elle obtint de haute lutte que son père lui bâtisse le monastère où elle
souhaitait se consacrer tout entière au Seigneur. Ce fut la fondation de
l'abbaye de Faremoutiers en 627 au diocèse de Meaux dont elle fut la première
abbesse. Elle y mourut vers l'an 660. Cette abbaye subsiste encore.
L'église
Saint-Maur-Sainte-Fare à Buthiers, Seine-et-Marne.
SAINTE FARE ou
BURGONDOFARE (655)
Fondatrice de Faremoutiers
Elle est la fille du
comte Agnéric et de Léodegonde ; sœur des saints Cagnoald et Faron. Elle fut
bénie dans son enfance par saint Colomban qui reconnut la marque d’une vocation
à ce qu’elle portait entre ses doigts un épi de blé mûr, bien que ce ne fut pas
la saison.
Plus tard son père voulut la marier à un jeune homme de son rang mais elle
s’enfuit et se cacha dans une chapelle près de Meaux, suppliant le Seigneur de
conserver sa virginité. Elle fut retrouvée, ramenée au château et enfermée
pendant six mois. Saint Eustaise, disciple de saint Colomban réprimanda
fortement Agnéric de ses agissements le menaçant des châtiments de la justice
de Dieu. Agnéric, effrayé reconnut sa faute, rompit la promesse de mariage,
consentit que sa fille reçut le voile (614), et résolut de bâtir un monastère
(Bridge). Elle y fut nommée abbesse et établit la règle de saint Colomban.
Des vierges de France et de l’étranger vinrent se ranger sous sa conduite,
attirées par ses vertus. Faron, le frère de Fare fut si touché des exemples et
des discours de sa sœur qu’il se consacra à la vie religieuse ; il devint
évêque de Meaux. Agée de plus de quatre-vingt ans, elle se prépara à l’heure de
sa mort avec ferveur en exhortant ses filles : « Aimez Dieu en toute chose et
gardez fidèlement sa loi... Ne méprisez personne que vous-même…»
Sainte Fare rendit son
âme à Dieu le 7 décembre 655. Ses reliques sont conservées dans l’église de
Faremoutiers et dans celle de Champeaux dans le diocèse de Meaux. Elle est
invoquée pour les maux d’yeux.
SOURCE : http://www.orthodoxie-celtique.net/sainte_fare.html
Katholische
Kirche Saint-Sulpice in La Celle-sur-Morin im Département Seine-et-Marne in
der Region Île-de-France (Frankreich), Bleiglasfenster,
Darstellung: hl. Fara (Burgundofara), Äbtissin im 7. Jahrhundert in Faremoutiers
Also
known as
Burgondophora
Fare
Fara
3 April on
some calendars
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Sister of Saint Cagnoald
and Saint Faro
of Meaux; daughter of Count Agneric, courtier of King Theodebert
II. As a baby,
she was blessed by Saint Columbanus.
Burgundofara was early
drawn to a religious vocation,
despite her father‘s
fierce opposition. He demanded that she marry, and
arranged a marriage for
her. The girl became deathly ill,
and when she was miraculously healed by Saint Eustace,
Burgundofara’s father gave
in, and built his daughter a convent. It
followed the Rule of Saint Columban, and is now known as the Benedictine abbey of
Faremoutiers.
Abbess for
37 years, noted for her piety and administrative skill. She trained many English nun–saints,
including Saint Ethelburga. Bede refers
to her, which led to the mistaken idea that she died in England.
Born
643 or 655 or 657 near
Meaux, France (records
vary) of natural causes
abbess with
an ear of corn
a child being blessed by Saint Columbanus
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L'église
Sainte-Fare d'Achères-la-Forêt.
Book of Saints –
Burgondophora
Also
known as
(Fara) (Saint)
Virgin (April 3)
(7th century) Born of a noble Frankish family, she was favoured from her
childhood with heavenly visions and other supernatural favours. She received
the holy veil of religion from the famous Abbot Saint Columbanus, but on
account of her having refused to marry, was cruelly persecuted by her
disappointed father. In the end, however, he was reconciled to his daughter,
and built for her the monastery of Faremoutiers, near Meaux. Influenced by her,
her brother Saint Fare gave himself to God. Saint Burgondophora passed away,
surrounded by her weeping nuns, 3 April 655, being then sixty years old.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Burgondophora”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 8
September 2012.
Web. 25 March 2026. <http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-burgondophora/>
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St. Fara
Feastday: April 3
Burgundofara (Fara) was
the daughter of Count Agneric, courtier of King Theodebert II. She refused her
father's demands that she marry, and became Abbess of
a convent she
convinced him to build, and ruled for thirty-seven years. Named Evoriacum,
the convent was
renamed for her after her death, and in time became
the famous Benedictine Abbey of
Faremoutiers. She is also known as Fare. Her feast day is April 3rd.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=348
Basilica
di Santa Fara, Bari
Burgundofara, OSB Abbess
V (RM)
(also known as Fare,
Fara)
Born near Meaux; died at
Faremoutiers in Brie, France, on April 3, c. 655-657. Sister of Saint Cagnoald,
Saint Faro, and Agnetrudis, Fare had been blessed by Saint Columbanus in her
infancy during his stay with the family on his way into exile from Luxeuil.
Some chroniclers say say was 10 or 15 at the time Columbanus consecrated her to
God in a particular manner.
She developed a religious
vocation early in spite of the fierce opposition of her father, Count Agneric,
one of the principal courtiers of King Theodebert II. He arranged an honorable
match for his daughter, which so upset her that she became mortally ill. Still
Agneric demanded that she marry.
When Saint Eustace was
returning to the court with her brother Cagnoald from his embassy to Columbanus,
he stayed in the home of Agneric. Fare disclosed to him her vocation. Eustace
told her father that Fare was deathly ill because he opposed her pious
inclinations. The saintly man prostrated himself for a time in prayer, rose,
and made the sign of the cross upon Fare's eyes. Immediately her health was
restored.
Eustace asked her mother,
Leodegonda, to prepare Fare to receive the veil when he returned to court. As
soon as the saint left, Agneric again began to harass his daughter. She sought
sanctuary in the church when he threatened to kill her if she did not comply
with this wishes. Eustace returned and reconciled father and daughter. He then
arranged for Fare to be professed before Bishop Gondoald of Meaux in 614.
A year or two later, Fare
convinced her father to build her a double monastery, originally named Brige
(Brie, which is Celtic for "bridge") or Evoriacum, now called
Faremoutiers (Fare's monastery). The chronicler Jonas, a monk in that abbey,
wrote about many of the holy people he knew there, including Saint Cagnoald and
Saint Walbert.
Although Fare was still
very young, she was appointed its first abbess and governed the monastery under
the Rule of Saint Columbanus for 37 years. The rule was severe. The use of wine
and milk was forbidden (at least during penitential seasons). The inhabitants
confessed three times each day to encourage a habitual watchfulness for the
attainment of purity of heart. Masses were said daily in the monastery for 30
days for the soul of those religious who died.
Fare was apparently an
excellent directress of souls. Many English princess-nuns and nun-saints were
trained under her, including Saints Gibitrudis, Sethrida, Ethelburga,
Ercongotha, Hildelid, Sisetrudis, Hercantrudis, and others. Once when her
younger brother, Saint Faro, was visiting, he was so moved by her heavenly
discourses that he resigned the great offices which he held at court, persuaded
his fiancé to become a nun, and took the clerical tonsure. After he succeeded
Gondoald as bishop, Faro supported his sister against attempts to mitigate the
severity of the Rule.
A reference is made to
Fare by Bede led long afterwards to the mistaken idea that she died in England;
however, she died at Faremoutiers after a painful, lingering illness. Her will
bequeathed some of her lands to her siblings, but the rest to the monastery,
includng her lands at Champeaux on which a monastery was later erected.
Fare's relics were
enshrined in 695 and many miracles were attributed to her intercession. Among
them is the restoration of sight to Dame Charlotte le Bret, daughter to the
first president and treasurer-general of finance in the district of Paris. At
the age of seven (1602), her left eye was put out. She became a nun at
Faremoutiers in 1609 and lost the sight in her remaining eye in 1617 due to an
irreversible eye disease. Because she suffered terrible pain in her eyes and
the adjacent nerves, remedies were applied to destroy all feeling in the area.
In 1622, she kissed one of the exposed bones of Saint Fare and touched it to
both eyes. She had feeling again. Upon repeating the action, her sight was
restored--instantly and perfectly. Physicians and witnesses testified in
writing to her state before and after this miracle, which was certified as such
be Bishop John de Vieupont of Meaux on December 9, 1622.
The affidavit of the
abbess, Frances de la Chastre, and the community also mentioned two other
miraculous cures of palsy and rheumatism. Other miracles wrought at the
intercession of Saint Fare are recorded by Carcat and du Plessis (Attwater,
Attwater2, Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Husenbeth).
Saint Burgundofara is
depicted in art as an abbess with an ear of corn. Sometimes she may be shown in
the scene where Saint Columbanus blesses a child (Roeder). She is honored
especially in France and Sicily (Husenbeth).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0403.shtml
Comme l’Abbé St Colomban estant en la maison du Comte de Meaux bénit Ste Fare et ses
trois frères, gravure du XVIIIe siècle
St. Fara, Virgin and Abbess
AGNERIC, one of the
principal officers of the court of Theodebert II. king of Austrasia, had by his
wife Leodegonda, four children: St. Cagnoald, who took the monastic habit under
St. Columban at Luxeu, about the year 594; St. Faro, who became bishop of
Meaux; St. Fara, 1 and
Agnetrudis. In 610, St. Columban being banished from Luxeu, in his flight
lodged at the house of Agneric, called Pipimisium, two leagues from Meaux, the
present Aupigny, according to Mabillon, or Champigny, according to Du Plessis.
St. Cagnoald, who accompanied this abbot in his exile into Switzerland,
probably introduced him to his father, and St. Columban gave his blessing to
all the family; and when he came to Fara, consecrated her to God in a
particular manner. Jonas says she was then in her infancy; Baillet supposes her
then fifteen; Du Plessis only ten. When she had attained the age of puberty,
her father proposed to her an honourable match. The holy virgin did every thing
that lay in her power to prevent it and fell into a lingering sickness, which
brought her life in danger. St. Eustasius, St. Columban’s successor, when that
holy man went to Bobio in Italy, made a journey thither, by order of Clotaire
II. in order to persuade him to return, taking with St. Cagnoald, who had
returned to Luxeu when St. Columban left Switzerland. St. Eustasius, after he
came back, repaired to the court of Clotaire II. to give him an account of his
embassy, and in his way lodged at Agneric’s. Fara discovered to him her earnest
desire of consecrating her virginity to her heavenly spouse. The holy man told
her father, that God had visited her with a dangerous illness which threatened
certain death, only because he opposed her pious inclinations, and after
praying some time prostrate on the ground, he arose, and made the sign of the
cross upon her eyes; whereupon she was forthwith restored to her health. The
saint recommended her to her mother, that she might be prepared to receive the
veil at the time he should come back from court. No sooner was he gone out of
doors, but Agneric began again to persecute his daughter, in order to extort
her consent to marry the young nobleman to whom he had promised her. Fara fled
to the church, and when she was told that, unless she complied with her
father’s desire, she would be murdered; she resolutely answered: “Do you think
I am afraid of death? To lose my life for the sake of virtue, and fidelity to
the promise I have made to God, would be a great happiness.” St. Eustasius
speedily returned, and easily reconciled her father to her, and engaged
Gondoald, bishop of Meux, to give her the religious veil. This happened in the
year 614. The foundation of the famous monastery of Faremoutier, is dated a
year or two after this, Agneric having given his pious daughter a competent
portion of land, and raised a building proper for this purpose. The abbey was
originally called Brige, from the Celtic word which signifies a bridge: Du
Plessis supposes that there was then, as there is at present, a bridge over the
river at the confluence of the Aubetin and the Great Morin. Hence the
neighbouring forest now called the Forest of Faremoutier, took that name. 2 The
Latin name Eboriacas or Evoriacas, which in the seventh age was given to this
monastery, seems to have been derived from the Celtic; and from this monastery
and forest a district of the country on the south of the Marne took the same
name, and is now called Brie. 3 This
monastery was founded double, and St. Eustasius sent thither from Luxeu St.
Cagnoald, who, in 620, was made bishop of Laon, and St. Walbert, who being born
of an illustrious family in Ponthieu, and having served some time in the army,
had retired to Luxeu. He afterwards succeeded St. Eustasius in that abbacy in
625. Jonas was also a monk at Faremoutier, soon after the foundation of that
house, and an eye-witness to the eminent virtues of the holy persons who
inhabited it, and of which he has left us an edifying account.
St. Fara, though very
young, was appointed abbess of the nunnery, and, assisted with the councils of
St. Cagnoald and St. Walbert, settled there the rule of St. Columban, in its
greatest severity. We find that the use of wine was there forbidden, and also
that of milk, at least in Lent and Advent, and the religious made three
confessions a-day, as is mentioned in the life of St. Fara; that is, thrice
every day they made a strict examination of their consciences, and made a
confession or manifestation of what passed in their souls to their superior.
This practice of rigorous self-examination and confession or manifestation is
most strenuously recommended and ordered in all the ancient rules of a monastic
life, 4 as
a most important and useful means of attaining purity of heart, a perfect
government of the affections, an habitual Christian watchfulness, and true
perfection. Under the direction of guides perfectly disengaged from all earthly
things, and enlightened in the paths of virtue, many heroic souls at the same
time filled this monastery and all France with the odour of their sanctity.
Among these, several are honoured in the calendars of the saints, as St.
Sisetrudis, St. Gibitrudis, St. Hercantrudis, 5 and
others. From the life of St. Gibitrudis, it appears, that in this monastery it
was customary to say a trental of masses for every one that died in the house,
during thirty days after their decease. St. Fara was the directress of so many
saints, and walked at their head in the perfect observance of all the rules
which she prescribed to others. Her younger brother St. Faro was so moved by
her heavenly discourses one day when he came to pay her a visit, that he
resigned the great offices which he held at court, persuaded a young lady to
whom he had promised marriage to become a nun, and took the clerical tonsure.
In 626, he succeeded Gondoald in the episcopal chair of Meaux, died in 672, and
was buried in the monastery of the Holy Cross, which he founded, and which
bears his name. His protection and holy counsels were a support and comfort to
St. Fara, under the assaults which she had to sustain. Agrestes, a turbulent
monk, pretending to correct the rule of St. Columban in several points, drew
over St. Romaric, founder of the abbey of Remiremont, and St. Amatus, first
abbot of that house: though they afterwards discovered the snare, and repented
of their fault. St. Fara was upon her guard, and constantly opposed all
attempts to undermine the severity of the holy rule which she had professed.
Ega, mayor of the palace of Clovis II. raised a troublesome persecution against
her, which she bore with patience and constancy to his death, in 641. On the
other side, the reputation of her virtue reached the remotest parts. Several
English princesses crossed the seas, to sacrifice at the foot of the altars the
pomp and riches which waited for them on thrones. The glittering splendour of
the purple and courts appeared in their eyes an empty seducing phantom: they
trampled it under their feet, and preferred the humility of a cloister to
worldly greatness.
Sedrido, the first of
these princesses, was daughter of Hereswith, whose father Hereric, was brother
to St. Edwin, the glorious king of the Northumbers. St. Hereswith had her by a
first husband, whose name has not reached us. Her second husband was Annas,
king of the East-Angles, with whose consent she renounced the world, and died a
nun at Chelles. Her daughter Sedrido passed into France in 644 or 646, about
two years after Annas, her father-in-law, had ascended the throne, and
embracing the humble state of a crucified life at Faremoutier, served God with
joy, in sackcloth and ashes, in the heroic practice of all Christian virtues.
Though a stranger, she was chosen to succeed St. Fara, and governed this
flourishing colony of saints from 655 till her happy death. Her mother
Hereswith, her sister Edelburge, (daughter of Hereswith and King Annas,) and
her niece Erkengota, daughter of her sister Sexburga, and of Ercombert king of
Kent, passed at the same time into France, hoping in this exile more perfectly
to forget and be forgotten by the world, which they renounced. St. Edelburge,
called by the French St. Aubierge, is called by Bede 6 the natural daughter
of Annas; whence many have inferred that she was illegitimate. But the
word natural child seems never to have been anciently taken in that
sense, but in opposition to an adoptive child. 7 It
is at least visible that Bede here uses it to distinguish her
birth from that of Sedrido, who was only step-daughter to Annas. 8 St.
Edelburge was chosen third abbess of Faremoutier, upon the death of Sedrido,
and is honoured among the saints in the diocess of Meaux, on the 7th of July.
An ancient chapel in her honour, which stands not far from the abbey, was
rebuilt in 1714. A spring which is near it is esteemed a holy
well: and many drink at it out of devotion. It was beautiful and adorned at the
expense of certain English gentlemen, who resided in that country in 1718. St.
Erkengota, called by the French Artongate, died a private nun at Faremoutier,
and is honoured with an office in the diocess of Meux on the 23d of February. 9 Some
Benedictin writers add to these St. Hildelide, a nun of Faremoutier, who was
also an English princess; and was the assistant of St. Edelburge in the
foundation of the great nunnery of Barking. The primitive spirit of the
religious state which was established by these glorious saints, was long
maintained in this monastery of Faremoutier. 10 St.
Fara, after having been purified by a painful lingering illness, and made
worthy of the crown of eternal glory, was called to receive it on the 3d of
April, about the year 655. 11 By
her last will she gave part of her estates to her brothers and sister, but the
principal part to her monastery; and in these latter, mentions her lands at
Champeaux. 12 It
therefore seems a mistake in some critics that she founded there another
monastery. A conventual priory seems to have been afterwards erected there by
the monastery of Faremoutier. It has been since converted into a collegiate
church of canons, and is situate in the diocess of Paris. The relics of St.
Fara were enshrined in 695, and a great number of miracles has been wrought
through her intercession.
Dame Charlotte le Bret,
daughter to the first president and treasurer-general of the finances in the
generality or district of Paris, who was born in 1595, lost her left eye at
seven years of age, was received a nun at Faremoutier in 1609, and in 1617 lost
her right eye, and became quite blind. She went twice out of her monastery to
consult the most famous oculists at Paris, who unanimously agreed that an
essential part of the organ of her eyes was destroyed, and her sight
irrecoverably lost; and, to remove the pain which she frequently felt, they by
remedies extinguished all feeling in the eye-balls and adjacent nerves,
insomuch that she could not feel the application of vinegar, salt, or the
strongest aromatic; and if ever she wept, she only perceived it by feeling the
tears trickle down her cheeks. Four years after this, in 1622, the relics of
St. Fara being taken out of the shrine, she kissed one of the bones, and then
applied it to both her eyes. She immediately felt a pain in them, though they
had been four years and a half without sensation, and the lids had been
immovably closed; and she had scarcely removed the relics from her eyes, than a
humour distilled from them. She cried out, begging that the relics might be
applied a second and a third time; which being done, at the third touch she
cried out, that she saw. In that instant her sight was perfectly restored to
her, and she distinguished all the objects about her. Then, prostrate on the
ground, she gave thanks to the author of her recovery, and the whole assembly
joined their voices in glorifying God. 13 The
certificates and affidavits of the surgeons and physicians who had treated her,
and the affidavits of the eye-witnesses of the fact were juridically taken by
the bishop of Meaux, (John de Vieupont,) who, by a judicial sentence, given on
the 9th of December, 1622, declared, that the cure of the said blindness was
the miraculous work of God. The abbess, Frances de la Chastre, and the
community of nuns, signed and published a certificate to the like purport; in
which they also mention the miraculous cures of two other nuns, the one of a
palsy, the other of rheumatism. 14 Other
miracles performed through her intercession are recorded by Carcat 15 and
Du Plessis, who appeal to memoirs of the abbey, drawn up in an authentic
manner, &c. The name of St. Fara is exceedingly honoured in France, Sicily,
Italy, &c. See the life of St. Burgundofara ascribed to Bede, but really
the work of Jonas, of whom some account is given at note under the life of St.
Columban, on the 21st of November; he wrote at Faremoutier the lives of St.
Columban and his successors, St. Attalus and Bertulfus at Bobio, St. Eustatius
at Luxeu, and St. Fara. See also Du Plessis, Hist. de l’Eglise de Meaux,
t. 1, l. 1, n. 21, &c. t. 2, p. 1
Note
1. St. Faro, in ancient writings, is called Burgondofaro, and St.
Fara, Burgundofara. Baillet (28 Oct. in S. Faro) pretends that they were so
called because Burgundiæ farones, or lords of the kingdom of
Burgundy; for this critic pretends, that Brie was part of the province of the
Senones, which belonged to the dominions of Gontran, king of Orleans and
Burgundy, though it had formerly been part of the kingdom of Austrasia. See F.
Daniel, Hist. t. 1, p. 146. But Du Plessis shows that Meaux belonged not to
Gontran, but to Theodebert II. king of Austrasia; and that, Fara signifying
lineage, these names implied that the persons were of Burgundian extraction,
which Jonas, in the Life of St. Fara, testifies to have been the interpretation
of this name. See Mabillon, Act. Ben. p. 617. Ruinart, Not. in Chron.
Fredegarii, p. 621. Du Plessis, Hist. de Meaux. Not. 11, p. 632, t.
1.
Note
2. Saltus Briegius, Bede, &c.
Note
3. See Du Plessis, n. 17, p. 639.
Note
4. Reg. S. Bened. c. 7, Pœnitent. S. Columbani, p. 98.
Note
5. See Mabill. Act. Bened. pp. 439, 441, 442.
Note
6. Bede, l. 3, c. 8.
Note
7. Sueton. in Tib. c. 52. See Rob. Stephen. Thes.
ling. Latin. V. Naturalis.
Note
8. Du Plessis, note 34, p. 699, t. 1.
Note
9. Bede, l. 3, c. 8. Brev. Meldens. Menolog. Bened.
Note
10. At what time the abbey of Faremoutier exchanged the rule of St.
Columban for that of St. Bennet, has been the subject of warm debates between
le Cointe and the Benedictins. The latest epoch that can be fixed is about the
time of Charlemagne. Within half a league from Faremoutier is situated the
abbey of La Celle, which name was formerly given to hermitages and small
monasteries. This was raised upon the cell of St. Blandin, a hermit, born of
poor parents, who died there on the 1st of May, about the tenth century. A
council of Meaux, about the year 1082, ordered all small communities which did
not maintain above ten monks, to be subjected either to Marmoutier or Cluni.
Thus La Celle became subject to the former. In 1633, the monks of Marmoutier
yielded it to F. Francis Walgrave and the English Benedictin monks, upon
condition that the claustral prior, after his election, be instituted to his
office by, and his community be subject to, the visitation of the grand prior
and monks of Marmoutier. (See the deed of this convention in Du Plessis, t. 2,
n. 40, p. 343, and his account of this transaction, t. 1. p. 117, l. 2, n. 38.)
The English Benedictins were aliens in France till naturalized by Lewis XIV. in
1650, by letters patent, which were renewed in 1674, and again by Lewis XV. in
1723, (ib. p. 734, t. 2, p. 443.)
Note
11. See Mabillon, Act. SS. Bened. t. 2, p. 449, et Annal. Bened.
t. 1, p. 434. Du Plessis, note 19, p. 642.
Note
12. See her last will and testament, published by Toussaints Du
Plessis, Hist. de l’Eglise de Meaux. Pièces Justificatives, t. 2, p. 1.
Note
13. Du Plessis, t. 1, l. 5, n. 12, pp. 433, 434.
Note
14. Ib. Pièces Justif. t. 2, pp. 320, 322.
Note
15. August. Carcat, Vie de S. Fare, p. 238, &c
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume XII: December. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/12/072.html
St. Burgundofara (or
Fara) of France
Commemorated on April 3
(and December 7)
Blessed by St. Columbanus
as a child, Burgundofara became a nun despite her father’s opposition. She was
responsible for founding the convent of Brige in France.
The monastery was later
renamed Faremoutiers (Fara’s Monastery) where she was abbess for thirty-seven
years. She fell asleep in Christ in 657.
By permission of www.orthodoxengland.org
SOURCE : http://www.antiochian.org/node/18208
L'église
Sainte-Fare à Cinisi, Sicile, Italie.
Hauptkirche
(Chiesa madre) Santa Fara in Cinisi, Sizilien
Interno
della chiesa di Santa Fara a Cinisi
Santa Fara
(Burgundofara) Badessa
Festa: 7 dicembre
Originaria di Pipimisicum
(oggi Poincy, presso Meaux), ebbe due fratelli santi: Cagnoaldo, monaco a
Luxeuil, e Farone, vescovo di Meaux. Lo stesso san Colombano, esiliato a
Luxeuil e ospite in casa dei genitori di Fara, da giovane le indicò la via
della consacrazione. Tuttavia, una volta cresciuta il padre si oppose,
preferendo per lei il matrimonio. Solo Eustasio, succeduto a Colombano nella
direzione di Luxeuil, convinse il padre a lasciarla seguire la via religiosa.
Ma la libertà concessa rimase solo un buon proposito perché Burgundofara, per
seguire la sua strada, dovette abbandonare la casa paterna e si rifugiò presso
una chiesa. La situazione si risolse solo grazie all'intervento diretto di
Eustasio che la consacrò. Burgundofara, più tardi, fondò il monastero di
Evoriacum (Faremoutiers) su un terreno ricevuto in eredità dal padre. Qui fu
badessa per 40 anni. Morì verso il 675. (Avvenire)
Patronato: Cinisi
(PA)
Martirologio
Romano: A Faremoutiers nel territorio di Meaux in Francia, santa Fara,
badessa, che, dopo avere retto per molti anni il monastero, si unì
all’assemblea delle vergini che seguono l’Agnello di Dio.
Nacque nel villaggio di Pipimisicum (oggi Poincy, presso Meaux) dal conte Cagnerico e da Leodegonda, ed ebbe due fratelli santi: Cagnoaldo, monaco a Luxeuil, e Farone, vescovo di Meaux. Bambina, fu benedetta e votata a Dio da s. Colombano che, esiliato da Luxeuil, aveva ricevuto ospitalità dai suoi genitori.
Ma, divenuta adulta, il padre, incurante della promessa fatta al santo, pensò di maritarla. La fanciulla, allora, si ammalò e rimase in tale stato finché Eustasio, succeduto a Colombano nella direzione del monastero di Luxeuil, rivelò a Cagnerico che, lasciata libera di consacrarsi a Dio, ella sarebbe guarita. Il padre promise e la giovane riebbe la salute. Promise, ma non mantenne. Burgundofara, allora, accortasi che si cominciava a riparlare di nozze, abbandonò la casa paterna e si rifugiò, con un'amica fedele, presso la chiesa di S. Pietro. Scoperta, pregata di ritornare in famiglia, minacciata di morte se avesse rifiutato, non recedette dalla decisione presa. Eustasio, informato di ciò che stava accadendo, intervenne: ammonito severamente Cagnerico, impose il velo alla fanciulla.
Burgundofara, più tardi, ricevuto in eredità dal padre un terreno tra due fiumi, vi fondò il monastero di Evoriacum (Faremoutiers), di cui fu badessa per quarant'anni. Il cenobio, cui sorse accanto la chiesa consacrata alla Vergine e ai ss. Pietro e Paolo, divenne ben presto centro di fervida vita` spirituale: prima fu adottata la regola di s. Colombano, poi quella benedettina.
Burgundofara morì verso il 675 e il suo corpo fu sepolto presso l'altare, presente il fratello Farone. Ad alcuni decenni di distanza, Maiolo, abate del monastero di S. Croce di Meaux, ne levò le reliquie da terra esponendole alla pubblica venerazione. A Faremoutiers se ne celebrava la memoria il 7 dicembre; la commemorazione del 3 aprile deriva da un'aggiunta spuria di alcuni codici della Vita S. Columbani. Burgundofara è invocata specialmente contro i mali degli occhi.
Autore: Pietro Burchi
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90270
Fara
auch: Burgundofara
Gedenktag katholisch: 7. Dezember
Todestag: 3. April, Kommemoration:
7. Dezember
Name bedeutet: die
Fahrende (althochdt.)
Äbtissin in Faremoutiers
* 595 in Poincy bei Meaux in Frankreich
† 3. April um 656 in Faremoutiers bei
Meaux in Frankreich
Fara, Tochter des
adeligen Chagnerich, der enge Beziehungen zu König Theudebert II. von Austrasien hatte,
und dessen Ehefrau Leudegund war damit auch die Schwester von Cagnoald
von Laon und Faro von
Meaux, wurde der Überlieferung nach im Jahr 610 als junge Frau von Kolumban gesegnet,
als der in ihrem Elternhaus in Poincy zu
Gast war. Um 620 wurde sie Nonne im Kloster, das von ihrem Vater mit
Unterstützung von Cagnoald und Waldebert auf
seinem Besitz, Evoriacum genannt - an der Stelle der heutigen Kirche in
Faremoutiers - erbaut worden war und die Regel Kolumbans befolgte, dann auch
Äbtissin.
Das Kloster wurde nach
Faras Tod nach ihr Faremoutiers benannt.
Der Name Burgundofara nimmt Bezug auf ihre Heimat Burgund.
Manche Überlieferung nennt Fara eine Schwester von Cagnoald und Faro von
Meaux. Der Gedenktag 7. Dezember ist möglicherweise der Tag der Übertragung
ihrer Gebeine.
Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts
wurde das Kloster in
Faremoutiers zerstört.
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Blinden, gegen Augenleiden
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Quellen:
• Ekkart Sauser. In: Friedrich-Wilhelm Bautz †, Traugott Bautz (Hg.):
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Bd. XVI, Herzberg 1999
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundofarones - abgerufen am 20.07.2023
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CONFRERIE DU BRIE DE
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