s buried at Aix-la-Chapelle. The incontinence into {289}
which he fell in his youth, he expiated by sincere repentance, so that
several churches in Germany and France honor him among the saints. In
the university of Paris, the most constant nation of the Germans, (which
was originally called the English nation, in 1250, when the distinction
of nations n the faculty of arts was there established,) take
Charlemagne for their patron, but only keep his festival since the year
1480, which is now common to the other three nations of French, Picards,
and Normans, since 1661.[6]

Footnotes:
1. See Hardion, Hist. Universelle, t. 10.
2. Apud Mabill. Analect. t. 1, p. 21.
3. Conc. t. 6 & 7, ed. Labbe.
4. Hist. de France in Charlem. French edit. in fol.
5. Ceillier, pp. 376 & 400.
6. Pagi (in Breviario Rom. Pontif. t. 3, in Alex. III. p. 82) proves
that suffrages for the soul of Charlemagne were continued at
Aix-la-Chapelle, till the antipope Pascal, at the desire of Frederic
Barbarossa, enshrined his remains in that city, and published a
decree for his canonization. From the time of this enshrining of his
remains, he is honored among the saints in many churches in Germany
and the Low Countries, as Goujet (De Festis propriis Sanctor. l. 1,
c. 5, quaest. 9) and Bollandus (ad 28 Jan. and t. 2, Febr. Schemate
19) show. The tacit approbation of the popes is to be looked upon as
equivalent to a beatification, as Benedict XIV. proves (De Canoniz.
l. 1, c. 9, n. 5, p. 72.) Molanus, (in Natal. SS. Belg.,) Natalis
Alexander. (Hist. Saec. 9 and 10., cap. 7, a. 1,) and many others,
have made the same observation.

ST. GLASTIAN, B.C. IN SCOTLAND.

HE was a native of the county of Fife, and discharged in the same,
during many years, the duties of the episcopal character with which he
was honored. Amidst the desolation which was spread over the whole
country, in the last bloody civil war between the Scots and Picts, in
which the latter were entirely subdued, St. Glastian was the comforter,
spiritual father, and most charitable protector of many thousands of
both nations. He died in 830, at Kinglace in Fifeshire, and was
particularly honored in that country, and in Kyntire. According to the
ancient custom of that country, his name is frequently written
Mac-Glastian, the word Mac signifying son. See the Breviary of Aberdeen;
King in his Calendar, &c.

JANUARY XXIX.

SAINT FRANCIS OF