Faverney

Faverney is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Saône and the area Franche-Comté.

Geography

History

Short history

The history of Faverney is related to its religious history. As of VIIIe century a Burgundian lord made there build an abbey intended for his/her sister. (Is it about Holy Gude which would have thus been the first abbess of Faverney? … Nothing is less sure.) Four centuries later, in 1132, the moniales yield their house to monks Benedictines come from The-Chair-God (in Auvergne). At the XVIIe century, in full spiritual decline, intellectual and material, the abbey takes the route of the claustral reform of Saint-Valve and Saint-Hydulphe. It is then, and until the Revolution that Faverney knows its more beautiful hours, its most brilliant time: the monastery " grows in science and holiness and grows in reputation and influence".

The miracle of the holy hosts

In 1608, the Whit Sunday, the monstrance and the two hosts which it contains miraculeusement are preserved at the time of a fire of the resting place. And Faverney becomes a place of pilgrimage. Today still the local festivities are combined skilfully with the religious tradition.

Administration

Demography

Tourist monuments and places

Buildings of the Middle Ages, there remain only certain parts of the abbey church. The buildings of the abbey were rebuilt starting from the end of the XVIIe century: 1683-1688: abbey district, currently town hall; 1713-1733: conventual buildings within Dom Vincent Duchesne.

After the Revolution, the church (" Sanctuary with respite " in XVIe century) becomes parochial, the abbey district is transformed into town hall. The conventual buildings, sold like national and partly destroyed goods, are rebuilt at the end of 19th and the beginning of the XXe centuries before accommodating a great seminar of philosophy of 1911 to 1967. It is a private property today.

Personalities related to the commune

General Détrie born in Faverney in 1828.
Jacques Bouveresse, philosopher, prepared his baccalaureat with Faverney.

See too

Common of the Haute-Saône

External bonds

Faverney on the site of the national geographical Institute
Faverney on the site of INSEE
Faverney on the site of Quid
Localization of Faverney on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Faverney on Mapquest

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