Sabine Baring-Gould - The Lives of the Saints, Volume II (of 16) - February

As prelate, he maintained the same discipline over himself, and never abandoned the penance he had imposed on himself for his youthful sins, of reciting daily the Seven Penitential Psalms, of sleeping on a faggot of vine twigs, and of never speaking without necessity. But however severe he was in his dealing with himself, nothing could exceed the tenderness and love with which he sought out and dealt with the greatest sinners in his diocese. And this love which overflowed from his heart rendered him peculiarly successful in reconciling enemies. Knowing this, Urban V. sent him to Bologna to appease a disturbance which had broken out between the nobles and the people, and he achieved this mission with signal success. In his 71st year, as he was singing midnight mass on Christmas Eve he felt great exhaustion, which was followed by a fever, from which he died on Jan. 6th, 1373.

Relics, in the Carmelite Church at Florence.

In Art he appears between a wolf and a lamb.

[French Martyrology. The process of her canonization began under Clement XII., and was completed by Pius VI. in 1775; but she was venerated at Bourges from the time of her death.]

Before Louis the son of Charles VII, ascended the throne of France, his wife, Charlotte of Savoy, bore him a daughter, called Anne of France. When he succeeded his father, with the title of Louis XI., he desired greatly to become the father of a son, and when his wife became pregnant in the third year after his coronation, his hopes were at the highest. When, however, she gave birth to a daughter, his disgust manifested itself in bitter antipathy towards the child, who was baptized Jeanne, or Joan. When she was eight days old, she was betrothed, May 19th, 1464, according to the custom of the time, to Louis, son of the Duke of Orleans and Mary of Cleaves, and sent to the house of her father and mother-in-law. At the expiration of four years, she was ordered to appear before her father at Plessis-le-Tours, where she was received by her mother with love, but when she was brought before her father, Louis turned from her with contempt, saying, "Bah! I did not think she was so ugly;" and he thrust her away. She was in fact somewhat deformed, and plain in face. It will be remembered that Sir Walter Scott has introduced her into his novel of Quentin Durward, taking, however, considerable liberties with her history. To such an extent did the spite of the king manifest itself, that when he saw how devout his daughter was, and that in her loneliness, she found comfort in the House of God, he forbade her frequenting churches and even the castle chapel.

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Vincent of Beauvais, and other late writers, say that the name of God was found after his death written in gold letters on his heart; but this is only one instance of the way in which legends have been coined to explain titles, the spiritual significance of which was not considered sufficiently wondrous for the vulgar.

Lib. vi. c. 8.

De Bel. Jud. vii. 3.

As S. Ephraem related the incident several times to his monks, and they wrote it down from what he had related, there exist several versions of the story slightly differing from one another.

Hist. Eccl. lib. iii. c. 16.

Moreover it contradicts the positive statements of more reliable authors, that Bridget was the legitimate daughter of Brotseach, the wife of Dubtach.

But this legend is given very differently in another Life, and Cogitosus and the first and fourth Lives do not say anything about it.

As near as can be ascertained; see Lanigan, Eccl. Hist. of Ireland, vol. 1, p. 455.

Pertz, "Mon. Germ." vol. ii. p. 757.

Palgrave's "Normandy and England," vol. i. p. 419.

Palgrave's "Normandy and England," vol. i. p. 158.

'Annales Archeologiques,' Tom. xxiii. p. 232.

"Vie des Saints" Tom. ix. p. 22.

Elmasini 'Hist. Sarac.' Lugd. Batav. 1625, p. 267.

This article is condensed from an article by the Author in the Quarterly Review for October, 1867, on "Portraits of Christ."

For information on this Order, see Jan. 15, S. Alexander.

See for more information on the Iconoclastic heresy the life of S. Tarasius, Feb. 25th.

This very term "Symbol of Christ," as applied to the Holy Eucharist, is indication of heretical views on the Presence.

Gofredus in Vita S. Bernardi.

Eugenius III.