![[Saint Fursey of Peronne]](http://saints.sqpn.com/saintf50.jpg "jpg detail of a 16th century illustration from a French Lives of the Saints; swiped off the Wikipedia web site")
Also known as
- Fursa of Peronne
- Fursey of Lagny
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Son of an Irish prince. Related to Saint Foillan and Saint Ultan of Péronne. Educated by Saint Brendan the Voyager. Priest. Abbot of a house at Rathmat, Ireland. Preached, evangelized, and established monasteries in Ireland for twelve years. Evangelized in England, building monasteries. Evangelized in France, working with Saint Blitharius; they had great success. Clovis, king of the Franks, received him, and asked that he build a house at Lagny, France. Raised the young son of a court nobleman from the dead. Given to ecstacies and trances during which he received visions of a immense struggle between good and evil, with glimpses of heaven and hell. The visions were described in the aptly named Visions of Fursey, and had a great effect on such works as Dante’s Divine Comedy. Bede wrote extensively and glowingly of Fursey. His image is on the banner of the city of Peronne, France.
Born
- 648 at Mezerolles, France
- buried at Peronne, Picardy, France
- when his relics were translated in 654, his body was found incorrupt
- relics re-translated in 1056
- relics re-translated in 1256
- miracles reported at his tomb
- most relics destroyed in the French Revolution
- abbot raising a young nobleman from the dead
- abbot in an ecstastic trance
- priest in a trance with spectral images hovering nearby
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Catholic Online
- Little Book of Celtic Saints
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
- Wikipedia
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