Saint Faro
Saint Faro | |
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Bishop of Meaux | |
Born | Duchy of Burgundy |
Died | 675 |
Honoured in | Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church |
Major shrine | Meaux Cathedral |
Faro (or Burgundofaro; died c. 675 AD), Count of
He is canonized as a
History
Burgundofaro was of an ancient noble Burgundian family. His father, Ageneric, was one of the principal lords at the Court of Theodebert II.[2] His brothers were
Faro spent his youth at the court of King
His sister, Burgundafara, had become an abbess, and in speaking with her, Faro formed the idea of giving up court life. 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. Faro received the tonsure and joined the clergy of Meaux.[5]
Faro, who inherited lands in Guines from his brother, Count Waldebert,[6] succeeded Gundoald, probably a kinsman of his, as bishop of Meaux at some time between 625 and 637. He built a monastery at Estrouanne, near the English channel port of Wissant, destroyed and burnt by Gormond and Isembart.[6]
Fiacre approached Faro, as he had a desire to live a life of solitude in the forest. Faro assigned him a site at Breuil, in the region of Brie.[2] Here Fiacre built an oratory in honour of the Virgin Mary, a hospice in which he received strangers, and a cell in which he himself lived apart.
Notes
- ^ Régine Le Jan "Convents, violence and competition for power in Francia" in Frans Theuws, Mayke de Jong, Carine van Rhijn, eds. Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages 2001.
- ^ a b Monks of Ramsgate. "Faro". Book of Saints 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 23 February 2013 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Lambert of Ardres (2007). The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres. Translated by Lambert, Leah Shopkow. ch. 3.3.
- ^ Fara in Lambert, ch. 3.
- ^ a b c Butler, Alban. "St. Faro, Bishop of Meaux", The Lives of the Saints, Vol.X, 1866
- ^ a b Lambert 2007, ch. 3.6..
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