Saint Fausta
Virgin and Martyr
Virgin and martyr honored at Fesenzac in the Gers, Saint Fausta saw her sanctuary destroyed by the Normans in 864. Her relics were secretly transported to the monastery of Solignac by the monk Aldaire, before being transferred in 1047 to the Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Prée near Issoudun.
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SAINT FAUSTA (unknown era).
Initial cult and Norman destruction
Saint Fausta is honored in Fesenzac in Armagnac, where a church housed her relics until its destruction by the Normans in 864.
The memory of Saint Fausta, sainte Fauste Virgin and martyr whose relics were the subject of several translations. virgin and martyr, is celebrated i n Fesenz Fesenzac Initial site of the cult and burial of Saint Fausta in Armagnac. ac, in the former county of Armagnac, today the department of Gers and the diocese of Auch. Her relics were long preserved and honored in the same place, in a church built under her invocation, which the Normans destroyed in the year 864.
Translation of the relics to Solignac
The monk Aldaire, commissioned by Duke Arnand of Gascony, finds the saint's body under the rubble of Fesenzac and transfers it to the monastery of Solignac.
The monastery of Soligna monastère de Solignac Limousin abbey founded by Saint Eligius, where relics were transferred in the 9th century. c, founded in the Limousin by Saint Eligius, having been burned the same year by these barbarians, Arnand, Duke of Gascony, who had formed the plan to rebuild it and take the religious habit there, persuaded the abbot to send the monk Aldaire Aldaire Monk of Solignac who recovered the relics of Saint Fausta. to Gascony to bring back relics of the Martyrs with which to enrich the monastery. The latter, after having visited various places in vain, finally arrived at Fesenzac, at the sanctuary of Saint Fausta, which he had learned had been destroyed by the barbarians; and immediately clearing away the rubble under which the body of the Saint was buried, he removed it without the knowledge of the inhabitants and transported it to the monastery of Solignac.
Final transfer to Berry
In 1047, the relics were moved from Solignac to the Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame de la Prée, located near Issoudun in the diocese of Bourges.
From Solignac, the holy relics were transported, in 1047, to the diocese of Bourges, into the Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame de la Prée, n abbaye Cistercienne de Notre-Dame de la Prée Cistercian abbey in the Diocese of Bourges that received relics in 1047. ear Issoudun.
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Key Events
- Martyred at an unknown date
- Destruction of her church in Fesenzac by the Normans in 864
- Translation of her relics from Fesenzac to the monastery of Solignac by the monk Aldaire
- Translation of relics to the Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Prée in 1047