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- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information about Saint Fiaker
- Fast, concise facts and information
- Date of Birth and Death
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Fiaker
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Anchorite
Saint Fiaker Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Fiaker
The following provides fast and concise facts and information: - Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Fiaker: August 30
- Description / Title of the Saint : Anchorite
- Date of Death: Saint Fiaker died 670
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The Story and History of Saint Fiaker
The story and history of Saint Fiaker. Fiaker was nobly born in Ireland, and had his education under the care of a bishop of eminent sanctity who was, according to some, Conan, Bishop of Soder or the Western Islands. Looking upon all worldly advantages as dross, he left his country and friends in the flower of his age, and with certain pious companions sailed over to France, in quest of some solitude in which he might devote himself to God, unknown to the rest of the world. Divine Providence conducted him to St. Faro, who was the Bishop of Meaux, and eminent for sanctity. When St. Fiaker addressed himself to him, the prelate, charmed with the marks of extraordinary virtue and abilities which he discovered in this stranger, gave him a solitary dwelling in a forest called Breuil which was his own patrimony, two leagues from Meaux. In this place the holy anchorite cleared the ground of trees and briers, made himself a cell, with a small garden, and built an oratory in honor of the Blessed Virgin, in which he spent a great part of the days and nights in devout prayer. He tilled his garden and labored with his own hands for his subsistence. The life he led was most austere, and only necessity or charity ever interrupted his exercises of prayer and heavenly contemplation. Many resorted to him for advice, and the poor for relief. But, following an inviolable rule among the Trish monks, he never suffered any woman to enter the enclosure of his hermitage. St. Chillen, or Kilian, an Irishman of high birth, on his return from Rome, visited St. Fiaker, who was his kinsman, and having passed some time under his discipline, was directed by his advice, with the authority of the bishops, to preach in that and the neighboring dioceses. This commission he executed with admirable sanctity and fruit. St. Fiaker died about the year 670, on the 30th of August. Feast Day of Saint Fiaker
The Feast Day of Saint Fiaker is August 30. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven. |
Saint Fiaker- Short, concise biography of Saint Fiaker
- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
- Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Fiaker
- Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Fiaker - August 30
- History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
- Date of Death: 670
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Fiaker
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Anchorite
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