in
his heart with God; he was very abstemious in his diet, and most
rigorous to himself in all things. By this crucified life, his soul was
prepared to taste the hidden manna which is concealed in the divine
word, with which he continually nourished it in holy meditation. After
the council he was taken up in concerting measures for carrying its
decrees into execution, particularly those relating to the crusade in
the East. By his unwearied application to business, and the fatigues of
his journey, in passing the Alps in his return to Rome, he contracted a
distemper, of which he died at Arezzo, on the 10th of January, in 1276,
three years and nine months after his consecration, and four years, four
months, and ten days after his election. His name is inserted in the
Roman Martyrology, published by Benedict XIV., on the 16th of February.
See Platina, Ciacconius, St. Antoninus, Hist. part 3, it. 20, c. 2. The
account of his life and miracles in {422} the archives of the tribunal
of the Rota, and in Benedict XIV. de Canoniz. l. 2, t. 2, Append. 8, p.
673; the proofs of his miracles, ib. p. 709; also, ib. l. 2, c. 24, sec.
37 and 42; and l. 1, c. 20, n. 17. See likewise his life, copied from a
MS. history of several popes, by Bernard Guidonis, published by
Muratori, Scriptor. Ital. t. 3, p. 597, and another life of this pope,
written before the canonization of St. Lewis, in which mention is made
of miraculous cures performed by him, ibid. pp. 599, 604.

ST. TANCO, OR TATTA, B.M.

PATTON, abbot of Amabaric, in Scotland, passing into Germany to preach
the gospel, and being chosen bishop of Verdun, Tanco, who had served God
many years in that abbey in great reputation for his singular learning
and piety, was raised to the dignity of abbot. Out of an ardent thirst
after martyrdom, he resigned this charge, and followed his countryman
and predecessor into Germany, where, after some time, he succeeded him
in the see of Verdun, of which he was the third bishop. His success in
propagating the faith was exceeding great, but it was to him a subject
of inexpressible grief to see many who professed themselves Christians,
live enslaved to shameful passions. In order to convert, or at least to
confound them, he preached a most zealous sermon against the vices which
reigned among them; at which a barbarous mob was so enraged as fiercely
to assault him; and one of them, stabbing him with a lance, procured him
the glorious crown of martyrdom