The family to which Faro belonged is known as the Faronids and is named after him.
11 Facts About Saint Faro
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Saint Faro is canonized as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.
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Saint Faro's brothers were Waldebert, count of Guines, Ponthieu and Saint-Pol who became abbot of Luxeuil, and Chagnoald, who was bishop of Laon, while his sister was Burgundofara, who founded the convent of Faremoutiers.
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Saint Faro spent his youth at the court of King Theodobert II.
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Saint Faro served his successor, Theodoric, and then Clotaire II.
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Saint Faro first prevailed on him to defer the execution twenty-four hours, and afterwards not only to pardon them, but to send them home loaded with presents.
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Saint Faro took the religious veil, and retired to a solitary place upon one of her own estates.
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Saint Faro received the tonsure and joined the clergy of Meaux.
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Saint Faro, who inherited lands in Guines from his brother, Count Waldebert, succeeded Gundoald, probably a kinsman of his, as bishop of Meaux at some time between 625 and 637.
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Saint Faro built a monastery at Estrouanne, near the English channel port of Wissant, destroyed and burnt by Gormond and Isembart.
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Saint Faro assigned him a site at Breuil, in the region of Brie.