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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. Educated
by Saint Brendan. 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, where
he had great success. Clovis, king of the Franks, received him, and asked
that he build a house at Lagny. Raised the young son of a court nobleman
from the dead.
Given to ecstasies 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.
Born: c.567 at Munster, Ireland
Died: 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
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Patronage: Peronne France
Representation: abbot raising a young nobleman from the dead; abbot
in an ecstatic trance; priest in a trance with spectral images hovering
nearby
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