聖福雪（St. Fursey）院長＠夢的日記簿

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聖福雪（St. Fursey）院長

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聖福雪（St. Fursey）院長
一月十六日

聖福雪生於愛爾蘭的一個貴族家庭。他棄俗修道，自建修院一座。生平曾多次神魂超拔；他神魂離體時，四肢僵硬，如死人一般，同院修士最初幾次見到這異常的境象，還以為他已經氣絕身亡，準備羅棺殮葬他。有一次，神魂離體時，他被提升至高處，天使命他下望觀望：他望下一看，見到一個漆黑的深淵，淵上有四股烈火，各不相混。天使告訴聖人這四股烈火將焚燒犯罪作惡的人，每股火專為懲罰某一類的罪人。突然間，火焰上升，大有吞噬聖人的趨勢。聖人大驚呼救。天使說：「你不必害怕，只有燃點這火的人（意指犯罪的人）才為火所焚燒。」

聖人在愛爾蘭傳教十二年後，與他的弟兄聖福萊、聖歐旦二人同往英國。他在英國創建一座修院，復渡海往高盧傳教，在高盧又創建了一座修院，六四八年逝世。

St Fursey

Fursa, or St Fursey as he became known, (c597-C.649) was an Irish monk who did much to establish Christianity in England, and in East Anglia in particular. The name ‘Fursey’ or ‘Fursa’ means virtue in Gaelic.

Born in Ireland probably in the Munster area, he became a monk and before coming to England had already gained a reputation as a man of great holiness who dreamed visions and performed miracles.

St Fursey was the first recorded Irish missionary to Anglo-Saxon England. He arrived in East Anglia with his brothers, Foillan and Ultan, during the 630s shortly before St Aidan founded his monastery on Holy Island.

At this time Christianity was beginning to take hold in East Anglia under King Sigebert, king of the East Angles, who was already Christian upon becoming king in c.630. Sigebert appointed the first Bishop of East Anglia, a Burgundian Bishop called Felix who established the first see at Dummoc (Dunwich or Felixstowe on the Suffolk coast). St Felix is depicted in an early romanesque statue near St. Luke’s Chapel.

St Fursey won Sigebert’s patronage and was given a tract of land at Cnobheresburg, a Roman fort usually identified as Burgh Castle near Great Yarmouth. Here he founded the first monastery in East Anglia which was endowed further by Sigebert’s successor, King Anna.

During his years at Burgh St Fursey is credited with several miracles.

Around 644 he travelled to France where he founded another monastery at Lagny-sur-Marne near Paris and is described as carrying out further miracles. He was buried at Peronne which soon became a focus for pilgrimage as a cult developed in his honour.

The details of his life are known today mainly through two key sources:

Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People and

an anonymous manuscript known as the Passage of St Fursey written by someone who knew him.

In addition to his reputation as a missionary and miracle-worker, St Fursey is credited with having originated the Christian visionary genre in the West. During periodic bouts of illness he was visited by visions. The most well known of these was when he travelled in the company of angels to a great height from which he saw the heavenly delights enjoyed by the blessed and the torments suffered by the damned. Such a concept loomed large in the medieval mind and paved the way for Dante’s Paradiso and Inferno and numerous artistic depictions of heaven and hell.

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We stock a number of books on St Fursey in our Gift Shop and online.

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