Faustus, St (2)
Faustus, St
(d’Agaune was born about A.D. 460, but the date of his death is unknown.: He became a monk in the convent of Agaune, in Valois, and in 505 went to Paris with Severinus, his abbot, who was called thither by Clovis I to employ his medical skill in treating him for a chronic fever. On his return journey Severinus died, and Faustus, who had remained in France, was commissioned by Childebert to write his life. This work is commendable for its simplicity, exactness, and scant mention of miracles as wrought by its subject, in an age whose literature is replete with such marvels. The best edition is that by Mabillon in the Acta Sanctorum Ord. Sancti Benedicti (Paris, 1668-1710, 9 vols. fol.; reprinted at Venice, 1733, 9 vols. fol.). The Acta Sanctorum assigns the 11th of February to St. Faustus d’Agaune.- Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gener. 17:202.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Faustus, St (2)
(de Glanfeuil). was one of the Benedictine monks who came with St. Maurus to France, A.D. 543, and assisted in founding the first monastery of his order in that country at Glanfeuil (Glannafolium), in Anjou. In 585, after the death of Maurus, he returned to Italy, and became an inmate of the monastery of Lateran at Rome, where, at the instance of his brother monks, he wrote a life of St. Maurus, and presented it to pope Boniface IV, who approved it about 607. Faustus died some time after this (on a 15th of February, according to the Bollandists), and was buried in the monastery of Lateran. His life of St. Maurus reflects the spirit of the age, a credulous faith in the marvellous, and abounds in uninteresting and prolix details. Surius (Vitae Sanctorum, etc.), Du Breul (Supplem. Antiq. etc.), and Mabillon (Acta Sanct. Ord. Sancti Benedicti) have edited it.-Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 17:202-3.