Saint Faber
Deceased Person
Who is Saint Faber?
Saint Faber is the patron saint of the Sacred Heart Church in Boho, County Fermanagh and of Monea.
One of the first references to St Faber's is in the text of the manuscript known as The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee Ă“engus of Tallaght estimated to have been written at the beginning of the 9th century. This links the saint with Boho and Tuath Ratha together with her feast day, as follows: "Fedbair a virgin of Botha eich uaichnich in Tir ratha". This is reiterated in the 1630 text, "The Martyrology of Donegal: a Calendar of the Saints of Ireland".
There is a popular myth that St Faber had a pet deer which carried the sacred books that she was entrusted with. One day, as she was travelling to meet Baron O Phelan at his castle in Boho, the deer was harassed by some hunting hounds. In order to escape, the deer jumped into the Sillees River and in the process ruined St Fabers books. The saint then placed a curse on the river that it would run backwards, "the river writhed and recoiled," and now its route goes towards upper Lough Erne rather than the sea. The second part of her curse was that the river would be good for drowning and bad for fishing. If you look closely at the river route today you can still see some of the old routes that have dried up or formed oxbow-like depressions in the ground.
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