Saint Fursey of Péronne
Also known as
- Fursey of Lagny
- Fursa
- Furseo
- Furse
- Fursae
- Fursu
- Fulsey
- Furseus
Profile
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
- man with two oxen at his feet
- striking water from the soil at Lagny with the point of his staff
- watching a vision of angels
- watching the flames of purgatory and hell
MLA Citation
- “Saint Fursey of Péronne“. CatholicSaints.Info. 13 November 2020. Web. 17 January 2021. <>