Holy Foy

See also: Holy-Foy

During the Roman occupation of the Gaulle, persecutions against the Christian are very important at the end of the 3rd century.

With Agen, it is at this period that is born Foy (of the Latin fides , the Foi), which belonged to a very rich family Gallo-Roman E. She defended her Christian faith, until dying for her. Cooked on a bed of Bronze and decapitated, at the thirteen years age, Agen, in 303, after having appeared before the court of Dacien, Roman proconsul during the reign of the emperor Maximien. With it, died his/her Alberte sister, Saint Caprais and other Christian inhabitants of the city come to share the fate of the Martyr E.

It was hardly known apart from the area, so far of 866 where a monk of Conques, in the Rouergue, Avariscius, steals its remainders in the church of Sainte Foy d' Agen to bring them back in its Abbaye of Conches which missed relics, to attract crowd of the pilgrims, in search for acts of faith. This Moine would have spent ten years to Agen to deaden the mistrust of his/her colleagues before seizing the crowned remainders.

Another legend says that the bones of Holy Foy would have been put at the shelter in the abbey at the time of the invasions Normans which devastated the edges of the the Garonne in the Années 800.

At all events, the abbey knew a great prosperity consequently and, as it was on one of the roads of the pilgrims of Saint Jacques de Compostelle (the Via Podiensis), the “Jacquiers” stopped to request in front of the beautiful gold statue which contained cranium of martyrdom.

She is celebrated the October 6th, day supposed of her execution.

Its fame extended consequently in France then in Spain and with the Portugal. The Conquistador be took along it in the Americas. Many cities bear its name: Santa Fe with the E. - U. (New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Missouri, Tennessee), Santa Fe of Vera Cruz in Argentinian, Santa Fe of Bogotá in Colombia, and well of others with the Mexico, the Honduras, the Panama, the Chile and the Brazil (22 localities in all the country, with the orthography Santa Fe ; Brazilian source: " Atlas rodoviário Quatro Ground ").

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