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St Helier - The fabled life of St Helier |
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Miracles
This blessing of a child was soon forgotten, and they reverted to their pagan ways, forgetting their promise. When their son was just seven years old, he became paralysed through an illness, so Sigebert and Lusegard handed their son over to Cunibert in a state of desperation, and the boy was miraculously cured. Cunibert took over the educational needs of Helier by taking him into the church and teaching him.
Elizabeth Castle - an island fortress
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Before long, Helier started performing miracles. Amongst them, as legend goes, were negotiating with the rabbits that overran his garden and urging them to share the vegetables that grew there; curing blindness, and removing a snake from the mouth of a man who became its host whilst he was asleep.
Although Helier was getting a full education, Sigbert became angry and impatient – he wanted his son to return. Suspicious about what effect the miracles would be having on his son, he had Cunibert killed.
Helier was inconsolable and fled from home, and after much roving and performing of miracles, he felt directed by God to go to Nanteuil in Normandy to find a holy man called Marculf. It was Marculf that baptized him and sent him to an island called Gersut, or Agna (Jersey). At that time, there were only about 30 people remaining on the island as regular attacks by Vikings had steadily reduced the population.
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