tnotes:
1. De Script. Brit. c. 30.

ST. ANSBERT, ARCHBISHOP OF ROUEN, C. IN 695.

HE had been chancellor to king Clotaire III., in which station he had
united the mortification and recollection of a monk with the duties of
wedlock, and of a statesman. Quitting the court, he put on the monastic
habit at Fontenelle, under St. Wandregisile, and when that holy
founder's immediate successor, St. Lantbert, was made bishop of Lyons,
Ansbert was appointed abbot of that famous monastery. He was confessor
to king Theodoric III., and with his consent was chosen archbishop of
Rouen, upon the death of St. Owen in 683. By his care, good order,
learning, and piety flourished in his diocese; nevertheless Pepin, mayor
of the palace, banished him, upon a false accusation, to the monastery
of Aumont, upon the Sambre in Hainault, where he died in the year 698.
See Mab. Saec. 2, Ben. and Annal. l. 18.. Rivet, Hist. Litter. t. 4, p.
33, and t. 3, p. 646. Henschenius, Feb. t. 2, p. 342.

ST. ATTRACTA, OR TARAHATA, AN IRISH VIRGIN.

SHE received the veil from St. Patrick, and lived at a place called from
her Kill-Attracta to this day, in Connaught. Her acts in Colgan are of
no authority.

ST. ERHARD, ABBOT, C.

CALLED BY MERSAEUS AND OTHER GERMANS, EBERHARDUS.

HE was a Scotchman by birth, and being well instructed in the
scriptures, went into Germany to preach the gospel, with two brothers.
He taught the sacred sciences at Triers, when St. Hydulphus was bishop
of that city, whom Welser and some others take for a Scot, and one of
our saint's brothers. When St. Hydulphus resigned his bishopric to end
his days in retirement in 753, St. Erhard withdrew to Ratisbon, where he
founded a small monastery, and is said to have been honored with
miracles, both living and after his death, which happened to that city.
He was commemorated on this day in Scotland, but in Germany on the 8th
of January. See Peter Merssaeus, Catal. Archiep. Trevirens. M. Welserus,
l. 5. Rerum B{}iocar, ad ab, 753. Pantaleon, Prosopographiae, part 1.

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FEBRUARY X.

ST. SCHOLASTICA, VIRGIN.

From St. Gregory the Great, Dial. l. 2, c. 33 and 34. About the year
543.

THIS saint was sister to the great St. Benedict. She consecrated herself
to God from her earliest youth, as St. Gregory testifies. Where her
first monastery was situated is not mentioned; but after her brother
removed to Mount Cassino, she chose her retreat at Plombariola, in that
neighborhood