Sainte Aubierge
Abbesse de
Faremoutiers (+ 695)
ou Edelburge.
Venue du Pays des Angles pour embrasser la vie monastique en Ile de France. Elle était en effet la fille d'Anna, roi de l'Est-Anglie, mais comme aucun couvent ne lui convenait, elle s'en vint sur le continent à l'abbaye de Faremoutiers, à Eboriacum au pays de Meaux, dont elle fut l'abbesse.
Par son abstinence sévère et sa virginité perpétuelle, elle rendit gloire à Dieu.
Un internaute nous écrit: "Sainte Aubierge n'est autre que Sainte Ethelburge (Edelburge), fille d'Anna, roi de l'Est Anglie (Suffolk Grande Bretagne) et de Sainte Hereswyde - 3ème abbesse de Faremoutier (77515), à la mort de sa sœur Sainte Sethride - Sœur des saintes Sexburge, Etheldrede d'Ely (Audrey), Wibburge et de Saint Erconwald, évêque de Londres. Son culte: D'un coup de crosse, elle fit surgir une fontaine qui alimente actuellement un lavoir, une chapelle attenante abrite toujours la châsse de Sainte Aubierge sur la commune de Saint-Augustin (77515), diocèse de Meaux - Son monastère double était sous le règle stricte de Saint Colomban"
Sainte Aubierge est née en Angleterre au VIIe siècle... D'après la légende, l'Aubetin étant à sec, Sainte Aubierge aurait frappé le sol de sa crosse et en aurait fait jaillir la source... (Pèlerinage de Sainte Aubierge le lundi de Pâques à Saint-Augustin, Seine-et-Marne)
À Eboriacum au pays de Meaux, l'an 695, sainte Édelburge, abbesse du monastère
de Fare (Faremoutiers). Fille d'un roi des Angles orientaux, par son abstinence
sévère et sa virginité perpétuelle, elle rendit gloire à Dieu.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/7484/Sainte-Aubierge.html
Sainte ETHELBURGE
de Faremoutiers,
Abbesse
20/07 - 07/07
Morte vers 664. Fille du
roi Anna des Est-Angles, Ethelburge vécut longtemps comme moniale. Il semble
qu'elle faisait bien partie d'une famille de saints, incluant sa soeur sainte
Etheldred.
Sa soeur aînée, sainte
Sexburge, mariée au roi Erconbert de Kent. Sexburge influença profondément son
mari. Le Vénérable Bède rapporte qu'Erconbert fut "le premier des rois
ANglais à ordonner l'abandon complet et la destruction des idoles à travers
tout le royaume". Il ordonna aussi que tout le monde respecte le jeûne du
Carême de Pâques. Sa fille, sainte Ercongote, entra au couvent en Gaule avec
ses tantes saintes Ethelburge et Sethrida du fait, nous dit Bede, "qu'à
cette époque il n'y avait que fort peu de monastères en Angleterre".
Vers 660, Ethelburge
succéda à la fondatrice de son couvent, sainte Fare et sa demi-soeur Sethrida,
comme abbesse du monastère de Faremoutier dans la forêt de la Brie. Elle
y entama la construction d'une église dédiée aux Douze Apôtres, mais elle
mourut avant d'avoir pu l'achever, et fut enterrée dans le bâtiment à moitié
construit en 665. Les moniales décidèrent par la suite qu'elles ne pouvaient
pas se permettre d'achever l'église, et les reliques d'Ethelburge furent
ramenées dans l'église proche de Saint-Etienne le martyr. A cette époque, son
corps fut retrouvé incorrompu.
Dans l'art, Sainte
Ethelburge est dépeinte comme une abbesse portant les instruments de la
Passion. Elle est invoquée pour guérir les rhumatismes.
SOURCE : http://www.histoire-russie.fr/icone/saints_fetes/textes/ethelburge.html
Juan
de Roelas, Santa Edilberga, 1602, Sacristía de la Iglesia de San
Miguel y San Julián, Valladolid
Saint Ethelburga of
Faremoutier
Also
known as
Aubierge
Cdilburh
Edelburga
Edilberga
Edilburga
Etelburga
Profile
Daughter of the king of East
Angles. During her childhood,
Ethelburga lived in a Gallic convent under
the direction of Saint Burgundofara,
a home she would have for the rest of her life. She was known throughout the
community for her adherence to the Rule of the Order.
In the mid-seventh
century, Ethelburga was chosen abbess.
She ruled with wisdom and justice until her death. Saint Tortgith
of Barking was one of her nuns.
664 at
Faremoutier, France of
natural causes
when her body was exhumed
seven years after her death,
it was found incorrupt
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MLA
Citation
“Saint Ethelburga of
Faremoutier“. CatholicSaints.Info. 30 December 2023. Web. 17 January 2025.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ethelburga-of-faremoutier/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ethelburga-of-faremoutier/
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City
parish churches: St. Ethelburga Bishopsgate (former) This church was rebuilt in
1390, survived the Great Fire in 1666 and was only modestly damaged in World
War II. However, it was all but destroyed in an IRA bomb in 1993. It was
restored/rebuilt to its former design, externally at least, and is now a centre
for reconciliation and peace.
Book of Saints –
Ethelburga – 7 July
Article
ETHELBURGA (EDILBERGA)
(Saint) Virgin (July 7) (7th century) The daughter of Anna, King of the East
Angles, who consecrated . herself to God in the monastery of Faremousties
(France). In the government of this Abbey she succeeded its foundress, Saint
Fara. She passed away A.D. 664. She is known in France as Saint Aubierge.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Ethelburga”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
16 January 2013. Web. 17 January 2025.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-ethelburga-7-july/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-ethelburga-7-july/
St Mary the
Virgin's church, Loughton (interior), Stained-glass windows in Essex,
Aethelburg Of Faremoutiers
Ethelburga of
Faremoutiers, OSB Abbess (RM)
(also known as Aubierge,
Ædilburh)
Died c. 664. The daughter
of King Anna of the East Angles, Ethelburga longed to live the life of a nun.
It seems that she lived in a family of saints that included her sister Saint
Etheldreda.
Her eldest sister, Saint
Sexburga, married King Erconbert of Kent. Sexburga influenced her husband a
great deal. The Venerable Bede says that Erconbert was "the first English
king to order the complete abandonment and destruction of idols throughout the
kingdom." He also ordered everyone to observe the Lenten fasts. Their
daughter, Saint Ercongota, entered a convent in Gaul with her aunts Ethelburga
and Sethrida because, according to Bede, "as yet there were few
monasteries in England."
About 660, Ethelburga
succeeded her convent's founder, Saint Fara and her half-sister Sethrida, as
abbess of the monastery of Faremoutier in the forest of Brie. She began to
build a church there dedicated to all twelve Apostles, but she died before
completing it and was buried in the half- finished building in 665. Later the
nuns decided they could not afford to complete the church and Ethelburga's
relics were reinterred in the nearby church of Saint Stephen the Martyr. At
that time, her body was found to be incorrupt.
Ethelburga is mentioned
in the Roman, French, and several English martyrologies (Attwater,
Benedictines, Bentley, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Farmer).
In art, Saint Ethelburga
is depicted as a Benedictine abbess carrying the instruments of the Passion.
She is invoked to cure rheumatism (Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0707.shtml
St Ethelburga's Church: Great Givendale, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
St. Edelburga, Virgin
SHE was daughter to Anna
king of the East Angles, and out of a desire of attaining to Christian
perfection, went into France, and there consecrated herself to God in the
monastery of Faremoutier, in the forest of Brie, in the government of which she
succeeded its foundress St. Fara. After her death her body remained uncorrupt,
as Bede testifies. 1 She
is honoured in the Roman, French, and English Martyrologies on this day. 2 In
these latter her niece St. Earcongota is named with her. She was daughter to
Earconbercht king of Kent, and of St. Sexburga; accompanied St. Edelburga to
Faremoutier, and there taking the veil with her, lived a great example of all
virtues, and was honoured after her happy death by many miracles, as Bede
relates. Hereswide, the wife of king Anna, the mother of many saints, after the
death of her husband, retired also into France, and consecrated herself to God
in the famous monastery of Cale or Chelles, five leagues from Paris, near the
Marne, (founded by St. Clotilda, but chiefly endowed by St. Bathildes,) where
she persevered, advancing daily in holy fervour to her happy death. See the
history of the monastery of Chelles in the sixth tome of the late history of
the diocess of Paris, by Abbé Lebeuf, and Solier on this day, p. 481, &c.
Note 1. Bede, b. 3,
c. 6. [back]
Note 2. On St.
Edelburga, see Solier the Bollandist, ad diem 7 Julij, t. 2, p. 481. She is
called in French St. Aubierge. See on her also Du Plessis, Hist. de
Meaux. [back]
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume VII: July. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/7/074.html
St Andrew, Stoke Newington (stained glass), Christian saints on stained-glass windows in England, Æthelthryth of East Anglia, Queen of Northumbria on stained glass windows, Aethelburg Of Faremoutiers
Sant' Etelburga
(Edilburga) di Faremoutiers-en-Brie Principessa e badessa
Festa: 7 luglio
† Faremoutiers-en-Brie,
Francia, 7 luglio 695
Figlia del re degli
inglesi orientali, si consacrò a Dio come religiosa nel monastero di Ebreuil in
Francia, del quale fu badessa.
Martirologio
Romano: A Faremoutiers-en-Brie presso Meaux in Aquitania, in Francia,
santa Edilburga, badessa, che, figlia del re degli Angli orientali, rese gloria
a Dio con la severa astinenza del corpo e la perpetua verginità.
Figlia naturale di Anna, re degli Angli orientali (635-54), si trasferì in Francia ed entrò nel monastero di Eboriacum, nella diocesi di Meaux, poi chiamato Faremoutiers-en-Brie, dal nome della fondatrice santa Fara, divenendone, dopo la morte della sorella san Sesburga, badessa. Ella iniziò, nell'ambito del monastero, la costruzione di una chiesa in onore degli Apostoli, nella quale, alla sua morte, avvenuta il 7 luglio 695, sebbene l'edificio fosse giunto solo a metà, fu, secondo i suoi desideri, sepolta. La sua scomparsa fece sì che i lavori prima rimanessero sospesi per sette anni, poi venissero definitivamente abbandonati; il suo corpo fu trasferito nella chiesa di santo Stefano.
San Beda, da cui sono stati presi questi ragguagli, ci informa che la sua festa si celebrava con grande solennità il giorno del suo sereno trapasso.
E' inscritta in antichi calendari inglesi, cominciando da quello di Canterbury,
compilato verso l'anno 1000; in una lettera di Eugenio III del 3 gennaio 1146,
si accenna a una cappella dedicata a sant'Adelberga e il suo Ufficio rimane in
un Breviario del monastero di Eboriacum del secolo XIII. Il primo che ne
accolse il nome in un martirologio fu Ermanno Greven nel secolo XV che porta:
"Ethilburge virginia et abbatisse, filie regis Anglorum Orientalium",
da cui passò nel Molano e nel Martirologio Romano.
Autore: Pietro Burchi
