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St. Siran of Berry

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St. Siran of Berry

Abbot in Berry, Confessor

Siran, or Sigirannus, served at the royal court before becoming a cleric at Tours. Butler records his pilgrimage to Rome and the monasteries he founded in Berry.

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The life below remains the existing Butler-based reading, with its edition citation. The profile preserves the feast date and source title already listed in the library. Additional personal dates and historical details are shown only when separately documented.

Also called: Sigirannus
The two forms refer to the same abbot in Butler’s notice.

Butler sourceAlban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XII (December), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; December 4, “Saint Siran or Sigirannus, Abbot in Berry, Confessor,” p. 101.

Butler’s Lives of the Saints (1846)Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XII (December), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; December 4, “Saint Siran or Sigirannus, Abbot in Berry, Confessor,” p. 101.

The reading

ⓘ Butler source

Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XII (December), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; December 4, “Saint Siran or Sigirannus, Abbot in Berry, Confessor,” p. 101.

Siran, also called Sigirannus, came from Berry and studied at Tours. Butler describes his service as a cupbearer at the court of Clotaire II, together with the prayer and private penance that marked his life there.

He later received holy orders and served the church of Tours as archdeacon. His desire to give himself more completely to prayer led beyond the royal court and its honours. The notice also records a pilgrimage to Rome before the foundations associated with his name.

On his return he established two monasteries in the region of Bourges. He governed the house later called Saint-Siran, until his death. Butler’s short account preserves the movement from study and court service to the government of a religious community, leaving its detailed seventh-century chronology outside this condensed reading.

Historical note

An original Novena Regina reading adapted and summarized from the cited pre-1962 source. This is not a transcription of Butler’s words.

The names Siran and Sigirannus refer to the same abbot. Exact foundation and death years are not asserted.

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