Planche gravée du XVIIe siècle représentant l'abbaye Saint-Faron de Meaux, dans le Monasticon Gallicanum , Bibliothèque nationale de France. Monasticon gallicanum : collection de 168 planches de vues topographiques représentant les monastères de l'ordre de Saint-Benoît, congrégation de Saint-Maur, avec deux cartes des établissements bénédictins en France / [Michel Germain (1645–1694) ] ; le tout reproduit par les soins de M. Achille Peigné-Delacourt (1797–1881) ; avec une préface de M. Léopold Delisle, etc. / Paris : V. Palmé, 1871
Saint
Faron
Évêque
de Meaux (+ 669)
ou Burgondofare, c'est-à-dire «le bourguignon».
Elevé à la cour du roi d'Austrasie, il fit partie du conseil royal et se servit de son pouvoir pour délivrer les opprimés, «penchant plus du côté de la miséricorde que de celui de la rigueur.» Il mena une vie édifiante avec sa femme Blidechilde, mais sa sœur sainte Fare le décida à s'en séparer. Blidechilde accepta et devint une moniale exemplaire.
A la mort de sa sœur, il se décida à entrer dans le clergé et sa réputation le fit élire évêque de Meaux.
Nous le trouvons dans bien des conciles régionaux de cette époque. Plusieurs abbayes et monastères revendiquèrent longtemps de l'avoir eu pour fondateur. Ses reliques furent déposées à la Ferté-sous-Jouarre.
Un internaute nous écrit: "Succédant à Gondoald, il fut le 19e évêque de Meaux de 626 à sa mort 669 ou 672. St Hildebert lui succéda. Les écrits d'Hildegaire, deux siècles plus tard, nous apprennent que St Faron favorisait les moines venant d'Écosse, notamment un certain Fefrus (St Fiacre) qui reçut de lui la terre du Breuil pour son monastère. Il envoya un autre Scot, St Killien évangéliser l'Artois sur les pas de St Vaast."
À Meaux, vers 670, saint Faron, évêque. D'abord familier du roi, il fut amené
par sa sœur, sainte Fare, au service de Dieu, persuada son épouse de prendre le
voile des religieuses pour que lui-même soit accepté dans le clergé et, appelé
au gouvernement pastoral du diocèse, enrichit son Église par de très larges
donations de biens, érigea des paroisses et favorisa les monastères.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/2088/Saint-Faron.html
Saint Faron
Évêque de Meaux
En 869, l'évêque de Meaux
Hildegaire entreprit d'écrire la Vie du plus illustre de ses devanciers, saint
Faron. Ancien moine de Saint-Denis, connaissant bien la riche bibliothèque de
son monastère, il utilisa de nombreux ouvrages pour composer son récit. Le
résultat fut une Vie en 131 chapitres qu'il aurait pu intituler « Saint
Faron et son temps », car l'histoire générale et les exploits des saints
du VIIe siècle y tiennent beaucoup plus de place que saint Faron.
Hildegaire raconte que Faron naquit d'un père burgonde nommé Agneric, ami de saint Colomban, de saint Eustase et de bien d'autres. Faron eut plusieurs frères et soeurs : Walbert, évêque de Meaux avant lui; Chagnoald, évêque de Laon; Burgondofara ou Fare, abbesse-fondatrice d'Evoriacum (Faremoutiers).
A la cour du roi Théodebert, Faron fut si considéré qu'on le choisit comme
parrain du futur Clotaire 2 qui, devenu roi, suivait volontiers ses conseils.
Les Saxons se révoltèrent contre Clotaire et leur roi Bertoald lui envoya des
ambassadeurs chargés de ce message : « Je vois que tu n'as ni la force, ni
l'espoir de t'élever contre ma puissance. C'est pourquoi je veux user de
douceur... et je te demande de venir me servir de guide sur ce territoire que
je ne connais pas... ».
Clotaire, furieux, voulut massacrer immédiatement les ambassadeurs, mais Faron obtint leur sursis. La nuit, il entra dans leur prison et les exhorta à se faire baptiser pour sauver leur tête et échapper à la mort éternelle. Ils se laissèrent persuader. Le lendemain, alors que Clotaire recommençait à délibérer, Faron déclara que les prisonniers n'étaient plus des Saxons, mais qu'un fidèle les avait baptisés et qu'ils portaient les vêtements blancs des néophytes. Le roi et les grands admirèrent ce prodige et les renvoyèrent comblés de présents.
Plus tard Clotaire dévasta la Saxe et ne laissa en vie que ceux qui ne
dépassaient pas la hauteur de son épée. Cependant les femmes de Meaux
rappelaient encore dans une chanson la clémence de Faron.
Avec sa femme Blidechilde, Faron menait une vie fort édifiante, ce qui ne suffisait pas à sa sœur Fare; lors d'une visite, elle le décida à se séparer de Blidechilde : il l'envoya dans un monastère et se fit tonsurer. Il donna une terre à saint Fiacre pour y construire un monastère et envoya saint Kilien évangéliser l'Artois.
A la mort de son frère Walbert, Faron fut élu évêque de Meaux et édifia son
peuple par ses miracles et ses vertus.
Faron fonda à Meaux un monastère en l'honneur de la Sainte Croix, où il fut
enterré et qui prit son nom.
Bien que le récit
d'Hildegaire soit devenu la Vie officielle de saint Faron, dans sa forme
primitive ou dans des résumés, quelques historiens se sont donné la peine de
recommencer son travail d'information…
SOURCE : https://vangelodelgiorno.org/FR/display-saint/a5fb764c-9521-4882-b631-ae557ee5dc0d
Also
known as
Burgundofaro
Farón
Farone
Pharo
Pharon
Profile
Son of Count Agneric.
Brother of Saint Cagnoald
and Saint Burgundofara.
Grew up in the court of King Theodebert
II of Austrasia. Married layman.
Part of the court of King Clotaire
II. When he was 35 years old, he and his wife agreed
to separate. Faro became a monk at
Meaux, France and
then a priest. Bishop of Meaux c.626.
Worked for renewal of monastic life, evangelized his diocese, and
was known for his charity to
the poor.
Friend of Saint Fiacre,
and dispatched Saint Chillien to evengelize around Artois, France.
Born
c.675 of
natural causes
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Citation
“Saint Faro of
Meaux“. CatholicSaints.Info. 7 August 2020. Web. 27 October 2022.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-faro-of-meaux/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-faro-of-meaux/
Article
FARO (PHARO) (Saint)
Bishop (October 28) (7th century) Of a noble Burgundian family, his father,
Ageneric, was one of the principal lords at the Court of Theodebert II. His
brother, Saint Cagnoald, a monk at. Luxeuil, and his sister, Saint Phara,
attained like him to the honours of the Altar. Separating by mutual consent
from his wife (Blidechild, afterwards a nun), Saint Faro received the religious
tonsure and became Bishop of Meaux, a See which he retained for forty-six
years, until his holy death A.D. 672. His zeal and piety, coupled with the gift
of miracle-working, drew many holy men and women to Meaux, among others Saint
Fiacra.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Faro”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
23 February 2013. Web. 27 October 2022.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-faro/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-faro/
Saints of the Day –
Faro of Meaux
Article
Died c.675. Faro was the
son of a Burgundian nobleman, and for some years filled the office of
chancellor to King Dagobert I. When approaching middle age his sister Saint
Burgundofara persuaded him to give up his office. He became a monk (either at
Luxeuil or at Rablais), received holy orders, and by the year 637 he was bishop
of Meaux. Faro’s episcopate was a long one but little is known of it, or indeed
of his life in general; Bede says that he gave hospitality to Saint Adrian of
Canterbury when he was on his way from Rome to England. As bishop, he was a
great fosterer of monasticism.
Saint Faro’s brother and
sister are also venerated as saints. The brother, Saint Cagnoald (Cagnoaldus)
(died c.635), was a monk under Saint Columban at Luxeuil, and became bishop of
Laon.
The sister, Saint
Burgundofara or Fare, took the veil after strong family opposition; the convent
that she founded c.627 and presided over for many years was afterwards well
known, under the name of Faremoutiers. A reference made to Fare by Bede led
long afterwards to the mistaken idea that she died in England (Attwater, Benedictines,
Encyclopedia).
MLA
Citation
Katherine I
Rabenstein. Saints of the Day, 1998. CatholicSaints.Info.
7 August 2020. Web. 27 October 2022. <https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-day-faro-of-meaux/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-day-faro-of-meaux/
October 28
St. Faro, Bishop of Meaux, Confessor
THE CITY of Meaux situate on the
Marne, ten leagues from Paris, in the time of the ancient Gauls, was subject to
the Parisii, and received the first seeds of faith by the preaching of St.
Dionysius of Paris about the year 250. St. Sanctinus or Saintin, first bishop
of Meaux, is said by some to have been a disciple of that saint in the third
age; but Du Plessis 1 thinks
him to have been the same Saintin who was bishop of Verdun in the fourth
century, and whose relics were translated from Meaux to the abbey of St. Vanne
at Verdun, in the eleventh century. His successor Antoninus, and Rigomer the
ninth bishop of Meaux, are honoured among the saints. But the eminent sanctity
of St. Faro, the fourteenth bishop of this see, has rendered his name the most
illustrious of all the prelates of this see, who are mentioned in the calendars
of the church. His original name is Burgundofaro, and that of his holy sister
Burgundofara; the words faro and fara in the Burgundian language signifying of
a lineage; so that these names imply that they were of an ancient noble
Burgundian family, 2 which
is attested in the ancient life of St. Faro, 3 and
by a hymn on St. Faro used in the ninth age. Their father Agneric was one of
the principal lords and officers at the court of Theodobert II., king of
Austrasia; for Meaux and Brie then belonged to that kingdom, not to Burgundy,
as Baillet pretends. 4 For
though Gontran, king of Orleans and Burgundy, from 561 to 592, possessed the
county of Sens, which had formerly been part of Austrasia: the kings of
Austrasia were all that time in possession of Meaux. Agneric had by his wife
Leodegoadis four children, St. Cagnoald, (who took the monastic habit at
Luxeul, under St. Columban,) St. Faro, St. Fara, and St. Agnetrudis. His seat was
at Pipimisium, two leagues from Meaux, in the forest of Brie according to the
lives of St. Eustatius and St. Faro: which seems the village of Champigne in
Brie, rather than Aubigney, as Mabillon conjectured, 5 but
which lies on the other side. There Agneric harboured St. Columban in 610, and
that holy abbot gave his blessing to him and to each of his children, Cagnoald,
the eldest, having lived under his discipline since the year 594, and then
bearing him company.
St. Faro spent his youth in the court
of King Theodobert II. where his life was rather that of a recluse than a
courtier. After the death of Theodobert, and that of his brother and successor
Theodoric, the saint, in 613, passed to the court of Clotaire II., who reunited
the whole French monarchy. When that prince, provoked at the insolent speeches
of certain Saxon ambassadors had cast them into prison, and sworn he would
cause them to be put to death, St. Faro first prevailed on him to defer the
execution twenty-four hours, and afterwards not only to pardon them, but also
to send them home loaded with presents. Mabillon quotes certain charters which
St. Faro subscribed in quality of referendary or chancellor. 6 Dom
Du Plessis observes, 7 that
it is an unpardonable blunder of Yepez, 8 who
tells us, that St. Faro, made his monastic profession at Rebais, when that
abbey was not in being. Trithemius says, 9 he.took
the habit at Luxeul: which is also an evident mistake. For it is certain, that
from a secular military state he passed to that of the secular clergy. At court
he employed his credit with his prince to protect the innocent, the orphan, and
the widow; and to relieve and comfort all that were in distress. The life which
he led there was most edifying and holy; prayer and pious meditation were his
principal delight, and he inflamed his soul every day more and more with the
love of heavenly things. His great virtues and abilities engaged the esteem and
affection of the king and the whole nation; yet the world, whilst it flattered
and smiled on him, displeased him. His employments in it, how just soever,
seemed to distract his mind too much from God, and he saw nothing in it but
snares and dangers. One day he entertained his sister St. Fara, who was at that
time abbess, on this subject, in such a manner, that, being penetrated more
than ever with these sentiments, he was inspired with an earnest desire to
forsake the world. Blidechilde, his wife, whose consent he asked, was in the
same dispositions; and they parted by mutual consent. She took the religious
veil, and retired to a solitary place upon one of her own estates, which seems
to have been at Aupigny, where, some years after, she died in the odour of
sanctity. St. Faro received the clerical tonsure, and was the ornament of the
clergy of Meaux; which episcopal see becoming vacant by the death of the Bishop
Gondoald, he was unanimously chosen to fill it, about the year 626
The holy prelate laboured for the
salvation of the souls committed to his charge, with unwearied zeal and
attention, and promoted exceedingly their advancement in Christian perfection,
and the conversion of those who had not yet forsaken the errors of idolatry.
The author of his life tells us that he restored sight to a blind man by
conferring on him the sacrament of confirmation, and wrought several other
miracles. In 650 he assisted at the council of Sens: he invited holy men into
his diocess, and encouraged and promoted pious foundations to be sanctuaries of
religion, and nurseries and schools of piety and virtue. Excited by his
exhortations and example, many others entered into the same zealous views, and
gave themselves up to the most heroic practices of virtue. 10
St. Faro afforded a retreat to St.
Fiaker, and directed many saints of both sexes in the paths of perfection, and
had a share in many pious establishments made by others. A little before his death
he founded in the suburbs of the city of Meaux, where he possessed a large
estate, the great monastery of the Holy Cross, which now bears his name, and is
of the reformed congregation of St. Maur. St. Faro placed in it monks from
Luxeul, of the institute of St. Columban; but the rule of St. Bennet was
afterwards received here, and the famous abbey of Prum, founded by King Pepin
in the Ardennes, in 763, was a filiation of this house. St. Faro, after having
peopled his diocess with so many saints, went to receive the recompence of his
labours on the 28th of October, in 672, being about fourscore years old, and
having governed the church of Meaux forty-six years. 11 See
the three Latin lives of St. Faro, one compiled by Hildeger, bishop of Meaux,
in the ninth century, (ap. Mabil. Act. Ben. t. 2, p. 606,) another in verse,
written by Fulcoius, subdeacon of Meaux, in the eleventh century; and a third
published by Surius, with alterations of the style; extant genuine in
manuscripts at St. Faro’s, &c. See also Dom Toussaints Du Plessis, the
Maurist monk, Hist. de l’Eglise de Meaux, t. 1, l. 1, n. 41, 42, 43, 64, 73,
note 22, 23, 24, 36; and on the plundering of St. Faro’s church by the Huguenots,
ib. l. 4, n. 49, 50, p. 358, t. 2, p. 664.
Note 1. Du Plessis, t. 1, p. 4. [back]
Note
2. Ruinart,
Not. in Chronic. Fredegar., p. 621. Du Plessis, note 11, t. 1, p. 631. [back]
Note 3. Ap. Mabil. Act. Bened., t. 2, p.
611. [back]
Note
4. Baillet,
Vie de S. Faro, 28th Oct. [back]
Note 5. Annal. Bened., t. 1, p. 304,
not. [back]
Note
6. Annal. Bened., t.
1, p. 343, and App., p. 685. [back]
Note 7. L. 1, n. 41, p. 31. [back]
Note
8. Chron. de S. Benoit, t. 2, p. 176. [back]
Note
9. De Vir. illustr. ord. S. Bened., l.
4. c. 129. [back]
Note 10. Among these no one seems to have been
more remarkable than a certain lord of the court, and near relation of our
saint, called St. Authaire, and by the common people St. Oys, who resided at
Ussy, on the Marne, of the parish church of which village he is the titular
saint. His two virtuous sons, Ado and Dado, (or St. Owen,) were brought up in
the court of Dagobert I., and the former was made treasurer, the latter
referendary; but both, whilst they served their prince, aspired only after the
solid goods of the life to come. Ado first took the resolution of dedicating
himself entirely to God in silence and retirement, and, about the year 630,
founded the great monastery of Jouarre, in a forest of that name, in Brie, four
leagues from Meaux, to the east, a league beyond Ussy. Here burying himself
alive, he broke off all commerce with the world to entertain himself only with
God and his own soul on the great affair for which he was created. After a most
holy and penitential life of many years, he arrived at the happy term which
opened to him a passage to a glorious eternity. Many lords of the first
distinction embraced the monastic state in this house, under his direction;
and, among others, Agilbert, who, going into England, was chosen bishop of
Dorchester, when that see had been some time vacant after the death of St.
Birinus; but, returning into France, he died bishop of Paris. His sister, St.
Thelehilde, was appointed first abbess of the nunnery of Jouarre, this being a
double monastery. She died about the year 660, and is honoured at Meaux on the
10th of October. St. Bertile, one of her nuns, after having been long prioress
of this house, and assistant to the abbess, was called to Chelles by St.
Bathildes, in 646, and made the first abbess of that royal monastery, situated
four leagues from Paris. She governed the abbey of Chelles forty-six years, and
died about the year 692. Whilst Ado sanctified the forest of Jouarre by his
holy establishment, St. Owen founded, about the year 634, the abbey of Resbac,
now called Rebais, three leagues from Jouarre: of this house St. Agilis, called
in French Aile, pronounced El, a monk of Luxeul, was appointed first abbot, and
is honoured among the saints on the 30th of August. His disciple St. Philibert
succeeded him at Rebais, and afterwards founded the abbeys of Jumieges,
Nermoutier, Pavilly, Montivilliers, and St. Bennet of Quincy. His disciple St.
Regulus, was chosen archbishop of Rheims, and instituted the abbey of Orbais,
in the diocess of Soissons. St. Walter, a monk of Rebais, in 1060, instituted
and was made first abbot of the famous monastery of St. Germanus, now called
St. Martin’s, at Pontoise, and is mentioned in the calendars on the 8th of
April. On the histories and miracles of these saints see Mabillon’s Acta
Sanctorum Ordinis S. Bened., and his Annales Benedictini, &c. On other
pious foundations made at that time at Meaux, see the life of St. Fara. [back]
Note
11. See Le Cointe, Annal. Eccl. Franc. [back]
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume X: October. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : https://www.bartleby.com/210/10/283.html
San Farone di
Meaux Vescovo
† 670
Persuaso da sua sorella,
Santa Fara, abbandonò la corte per servire solamente Dio. Nominato vescovo di
Meaux in Francia, si dedicò alla conversione dei pagani, eresse parrocchie e
fondò monasteri.
Martirologio
Romano: A Meaux ancora in Neustria, san Farone, vescovo, che, dopo essere
stato domestico del re, indotto da sua sorella santa Fara a servire Dio in
pienezza, persuase sua moglie a prendere il velo delle consacrate, per potere
essere così lui stesso ammesso nel clero; chiamato al governo pastorale, dotò
la Chiesa di generose donazioni, eresse parrocchie e sostenne i monasteri.
Si possiede una Vita di Farone, molto particolareggiata, scritta nell'869 da Ildegario, vescovo di Meaux, ma per disgrazia essa è largamente leggendaria, cosicché bisogna appoggiarsi soprattutto su magre fonti d'archivio per descriverne la vita. Farone fu referendario, ossia cancelliere, del re Dagoberto, ed appare in questa qualità in una carta del 629. Poco dopo questa data divenne vescovo di Meaux, e, in ogni caso, prima del 637-38, poiché in quest'epoca concesse un privilegio alla chiesa di Rebais. Il suo episcopato si prolungò molto: sottoscrisse nel 660 una carta in favore di Saint-Pierre-le-Vif; nel 664 un'altra per Corbie; nel 667 una terza per Sainte-Marie-de-Soissons. Secondo Beda il Venerabile, Farone ricevé a Meaux nel 668-69 l'arcivescovo Teodoro di Canterbury, che tornava da Roma con l'abate Adriano. Si ignora la data della sua morte. Fu sepolto nell'abbazia di Saint-Croix, a Meaux, che, secondo Ildegario, aveva fondato e che prese più tardi il suo nome. La sua festa è iscritta il 28 ott. nei martirologi dalla metà del secolo IX.
Autore: Henri Platelle
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/75485
Ferdinand Lot. « La vie de saint
Faron et la guerre de Saxe de Clotaire II », Romania Année
1894 91 pp.
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