Saint Aurea of Amiens
RELIGIOUS SUPERIOR, IN AMIENS (8th century).
Religious Superior
A young woman from Amiens in the 8th century, Aurea became the companion of Saint Ulpha in her solitude at Boves. She was appointed the first superior of a convent founded in Amiens near the Castillon. After having a vision of the death of her spiritual mother in 769, she continued to lead her community until her own death.
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SAINT AUREA,
RELIGIOUS SUPERIOR, IN AMIENS (8th century).
Meeting and eremitic life
After the death of Saint Domice, Auree joined Saint Ulphe in her solitude at Boves and shared her life of prayer, accompanying her each night to the cathedral of Amiens.
Saint Ulphe had just lost Saint Domice, who had served her for so long as a spiritual guide in the solitude she had chosen for herself at Boves. Her isolation, which inspired in her rightful alarms, was to last only a day. The day after the burial of Domice in his hermitage, Saint Ulphe, according to her custom, went to the Matins of the cathedral, which were sung around midnight. She met in its vicinity a young girl, named Auree, who had Aurée Superior of the nuns of Amiens and disciple of Saint Ulpha. recognized the holy recluse by the radiance that shone from her face in the midst of the darkness of the night. The young woman from Amiens threw herself at the feet of Saint Ulphe, expressed to her her aversion for the world, her taste for solitude, and begged her to accept her as a companion and as a daughter. Such a proposal could only be accepted with joy. Auree therefore shared the eremitic life of the recluse of Boves, and, each night, she accompanied her to the Matins of the cathedral.
Foundation of the convent of Amiens
Faced with an influx of new vocations, Saint Ulphe founded a convent in Amiens to protect the nuns, entrusting its direction to Auree.
This example was to bear fruit. Several young girls from Amiens wished to consecrate their virginity to God and thus draw upon themselves the strengthening graces that are the share of a life in community. Saint Ulphe favorably received their request; but, fearing with reason the dangers that could surround these young girls in a solitude as complete as her hermitage was then, she obtained from the authorities of Amiens the foundation of a convent in an orchard located near the Castillon: it is to this establishment that the Rue des Vergers owes its name.
Saint Ulphe, after having installed the nascent community in this convent, entrusted its direction to Auree and retur Aurée Superior of the nuns of Amiens and disciple of Saint Ulpha. ned to the solitude that was so dear to her; but she often visited her daughters and, each day, she took a few of them with her to guide them in the path of perfection.
Death of Saint Ulphe
Warned by a vision of Saint Domice, Aurée attends the final moments and the burial of Saint Ulphe around 769 before continuing her work in Amiens.
One evening, after Compline, as Aurée was surrendering to sleep, she saw Saint Domice in a dream, who announced to her that the soul of her spiritual mother had just entered into the possession of heavenly happiness. Aurée immediately woke her companions and ran with them to the sainte Ulphe Virgin and hermit of the 8th century, disciple of Saint Domitius. hermitage of Saint Ulphe, where she found the recluse asleep in the sleep of death. She presided over her burial, which took place around the year 769, and returned to Amiens to continue the work to which she had devoted herself. Nothing more is known about her life.
Cult and relics
The relics of Aure are kept at the Abbey of the Paraclete; her feast day is set for October 5 by analogy with Saint Aure of Paris.
The head of Saint Aure was venerated at t he Cistercian Abbey of the Para abbaye cistercienne du Puraclet Cistercian abbey founded on the site of the hermitage of Saint Ulphe. clete, founded in Boves in 1218, on the burial site of Saint Ulphe, and transferred to Amiens in 1630. The feast of Saint Aure was celebrated there on October 5, not because it was believed she had died on that day, but because the church of Paris celebrated Saint Aure, abbess of the monastery of Saint-Martial, on that date.
Taken from the Hagiography of the Diocese o M. l'abbé Corbist Author of the Hagiographie du diocèse d'Amiens. f Amiens, by Father Corbist.
Annexes & related entities
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Key Events
- Meeting with Saint Ulphe near the Amiens Cathedral
- Eremitic life in Boves with Saint Ulphe
- Appointed superior of the convent founded in an orchard near the Castillon in Amiens
- Vision of Saint Domitius announcing the death of Saint Ulpha
- Presided over the burial of Saint Ulphe around the year 769
Miracles
- Vision of Saint Domitius announcing the death of Saint Ulpha