Fara fled to the church, and when she was told that, unless she complied with her father's desire, she would be murdered she resolutely answered: " Do you think I am afraid of death ? To lose my life for the sake of virtue, and fidelity to the promise I have made to God, would be a great happiness."
No sooner was he gone out of doors, but Agneric began again to persecute his daughter, in order to extort her consent to marry the young nobleman to whom he had promised her. The saint recommended her to her mother, that she might be prepared to receive the veil at the time he should come back from court. The holy man told her father, that God had visited her with a dangerous illness which threatened certain death, only because he opposed her pious inclinations, and after praying some time prostrate on the ground, he arose, and made the sign of the cross upon her eyes whereupon she was forthwith restored to her health. Fara discovered to him her earnest desire of consecrating her virginitv to her heavenly spouse. to give him an account of his embassy, and in his way lodged at Agneric's. Eustasius, after he came back, repaired to the court of Clotaire II. Cagnoald, who had returned to Luxei when St. in order to persuade him to return, taking with St. Columban's successor, when that holy man went to Bobio in Italy, made a jurney thither, by order of Clotaire II. The holy virgin did every thing that lay in her power to prevent it and fell into a lingering sickness, which brought her life in danger. When she had attained the age of puberty, her father proposed to her an honourable match. Jonas says she was then in her infancy Baillet supposes her then fifteen Du Plessis only ten. Columban gave his blessing to all the family and when he came to Fara, consecrated her to God in a particular manner. Cagnoald, who accompanied this abbot in his exile into Switzerland, probably introduced him to his father, and St. Columban being banished from Luxeu, in his flight lodged at the house of Agneric, called Pipimisium, two leagues from Meaux, the present Aupigny, according to Mabillon, or Champigny, according to Du Plessis. Columban at Luxeu, about the year 594 St. king of Austrasia, had by his wife Leodegonda, four children: St Cagnoald, who took the monastic habit under St. In 1524, the church was nullified in the course of the Zwingli reform.Agneric, one of the principal officers of the court of Theodebert II.
Rudolf Brun was the first independent mayor of the city, and the democratic changes had become irreversible. At that time, Ulrich Zwingli, a fervent Protestant, became a notable figure in Zürich. However, with the rise of the Reformation, an influence of the monastery had decreased. The abbess had become the head of Zürich, she had a right to manage the economy and appoint a mayor of the city. The monastery had significant weight in the city. Soon, the younger daughter of the king, Bertha, became an abbess of the Fraumünster. Ludwig granted it with the vast lands and integrity. She asked her father to build an abbey on the shores of the Limmat to create a nunnery for a larger number of novitiates. It was a real honor to enter a monastery, as not every aristocrat could join the ranks of postulants, so what to say about the girls of lowborn blood.Īn elder daughter of Ludwig, Hildegard, was filled with admiration for the bravery of nuns since her childhood. During the rule of Ludwig “the German” (805 – 876), young ladies from great families often chose the nuns path in life.
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