![[Saint Fursey of Peronne]](saintf50.jpg "jpg detail of a 16th century illustration from a French Lives of the Saints; swiped off the Wikipedia web site; please do not write to ask about the image")
Fursa of Peronne Fursey of Lagny
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.
648 at Mezerolles buried at Peronne, Picardy, France when his relics were translated in 654, his body was found incorrupt relics retranslated in 1056 relics retranslated 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
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