Siviard

Holy Siviard , fifth known abbot of Saint-Calais. It had as a biographer one of his contemporaries, monk of the 7th century.

Biography

Jean-Barthelemy Hauréau sees in his life a funeral kind of rotulus intended to be carried of church in church as a sign of confraternity. The text does not seem for the Abbé Angot to indicate this special destination and such an immediate drafting. But to refer some to the narrator, he had known the saint abbot not only in the monastery where he had it for father , but in its childhood and consequently in its native land cujus not conversationem,… ab adolescentia sweated, optime novimus .

Siviard had as a fatherland the country of the Diablintes, for father, Sigiram, noble Franc, for Adda mother. Like Bertrand of Mans, bishop of Mans, had given to the country diablintic, close to Poulay, of the grounds to its dear nephew Sigiram, there is some probability in the assumption made by Corvaisier, identifying the nephew of the bishop with the father of the abbot. One still supposes that Sigiram was itself monk and abbot of Saint-Calais, before his son. A sentence of the biographer insinuates it.

In the life of Siviard, he teaches us only his passion for the study in his childhood, his vocation with the religious life where he auraot desired to bury itself among the most obscure monks, the choice of his superiors who raise it with priesthood, the virtues which he practices worthy of all the praises that the Writing addresses to the saints Ministers for the Lord, its election finally with the abbey pulpit after the death of his/her father.

Thierry III which names it venetabilis to vir , confirms in its favor the possession of the goods of the monastery, in the year 676. For him, it magnificiently built the house of God, material structure and in spiritual discipline; it accepted from the bishop Aigilbert the places of Villiers and Lantion and builds on the territory of Saint-Georges-with-Lacoué a villa and probably a small monastery. He died without sadness, regrets, the 1st day of March, the 8th year of the reign of Thierry, i.e. in 680 or 681. One of the monks was informed of this probably sudden death by a vision where the abbot was shown to him in the celestial light accompanied by Saint Pierre and Saint Paul, and recommendant to him to carry to his/her sister and her campaigns eulogies that it had prepared to them.

A diploma of Charlemagne of the year 774 carries expressly that its body rested in the villa of Soap in Saint-Georges-of-Lacoué, last foundation of the saint abbot. It is thus there that its bones will have been removed then transpotés in Sens at the time of the invasions Normans. The church of Laval has a notable portion of it since 1883.

On the order of several bishops, Siviard wrote the life of Saint Calais, founder of the abbey which it had controlled. It is at least the generally followed opinion of Jean Mabillon. Besides the writing of the abbot does not contain almost any biographical feature apart from those which had already given the more sober author of the life of Saint Avit, but only of the relations of miracles according to the use of hagiographal of this time or posterior.

See too

Museum of Direction

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