Cyran Of Brenne
Cyran may refer to: * Sigiramnus or Cyran, 7th century Frankish saint and abbot *Jean du Vergier de Hauranne Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, the Abbé (Abbot) of Saint-Cyran, (1581 – 6 October 1643) was a French Catholic priest who introduced Jansenism into France. Life Born in the city of Bayonne to a family of Gascon and Basque merchants, Vergier stu ..., known as the abbé de Saint-Cyran, 17th century theologian * Saint-Cyran-du-Jambot, French commune {{disambig, surname, geo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sigiramnus
:''"Sigirannus” is also the name of a 7th-century abbot of St. Cales in the department of Sarthe.'' Sigiramnus (also ''Sigirannus'' and similar spellings; ; died 655 AD), also known as Saint Cyran, was an abbot and confessor of the 7th century. A nobleman of Berry,Alban Butler, ''The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'' (Published by Duffy, 1845), 71. he studied at Tours and then joined the royal court of Clothaire II. He served as cup-bearer but always wore a hair-shirt underneath his garments, devoting himself to prayer. His father, count of Bourges (and later bishop of Tours), wanted Sigiramnus to marry the daughter of a nobleman.Alban Butler, Kathleen Jones, David Hugh Farmer, Paul Burns, ''Butler's lives of the saints'' (Published by Liturgical Press, 2000), 41-2. Refusing to marry, Sigiramnus took holy orders at the church of St. Martin at Tours in 625 AD, serving as archdeacon at Tours. He refused to gain high position in the secular world, and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jean Du Vergier De Hauranne
Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, the Abbé (Abbot) of Saint-Cyran, (1581 – 6 October 1643) was a French Catholic priest who introduced Jansenism into France. Life Born in the city of Bayonne to a family of Gascon and Basque merchants, Vergier studied with the Jesuits of Agen. At the age of sixteen he was sent to study at the Sorbonne, and then took up theology at the Catholic University of Leuven. There he formed a friendship with Cornelius Jansen and, as the wealthier of the two, became Jansen's patron for a number of years, getting Jansen a job as a tutor in 1606. Two years later, he obtained for Jansen a position teaching at the episcopal college back in Bayonne. The duo spent 1611–1614 there, in seclusion in a house belonging to his family, where they studied the Church Fathers together, with a special focus on the thought of Augustine of Hippo, until Jansen left Bayonne in 1614 to return to the Dutch Republic. In 1617 Vergier left Bayonne at the invitation of Henri-Lo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |