Faucher, Denis

Faucher, Denis a French theologian, was born at Aries, A.D. 1487, and died at the abbey of Lerins in 1562. In 1508 he entered the Benedictine order at the con-ent of Polinore, near Mantua, and in 1515 was sent to the monastery of Lerins, of which he in advanced years became prior. His works are found in Vincent Barrale's (of Salerno) Chronologia Sanctorum et Aliorum virorum illustrium ac Abbatum Sacrae insulae Lerinensis (Lyon, 1613, 4to).- Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen.