and renounce the pleasures of this life, by appearing on all occasions a
strong lesson of self-denial and mortification. Instructing them thus,
both by words and actions, he gathered a large harvest in a wild and
uncultivated field. After many years thus spent, he died at Auchy, in
the county of Artois, on the 15th of February, in 718. He is
commemorated in Usuard, the Belgic and Roman Martyrologies, on the 17th,
which was the day of his burial: but at Auchy on the 15th. The greatest
part of his relics is now at St. Bertin's, at St. Omers, whither they
were carried in 951, for fear of the Normans. Usuard is the first who
styles St. Silvin bishop of Terouenne. Some think he was born, not at
Thoulouse, but at Thosa, or Doest, near Bruges; or rather at another
Thosa, now Doesbury, in Brabant; for in his life it is said that he
travelled westward to preach the gospel. His original life, which was
ascribed to Antenor, a disciple of the saint, is lost: that which we
have was compiled in the ninth century. See Bolland. t. 3, Feb. p. 29,
Mabillon, Act. Bened. Saec. 3, par. 1, p. 298. Chatelain's Notes, p. 659.

ST. LOMAN, OR LUMAN, B.C.

JOCELIN calls him a nephew of St. Patrick, by a sister. He was at least
a disciple of that saint, and first bishop of Trim, in Meath.
Port-Loman, a town belonging to the Nugents in West-meath, takes its
name from him, and honors his memory with singular veneration. St.
Forcher{n}, son of the lord of that territory, was baptized by St.
Loman, succeeded him in the bishopric of Trim, and is honored among the
saints in Ireland, both on this same day and on the 11th of October. See
Colgan on the 17th Febr. Usher's Antiqu. ad ann. 433.

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ST. FINTAN, ABBOT OF CLUAINEDNECH,

WHICH Usher interprets the Ivy-Cave, in the diocese of Lethglean, in
Leinster, in the sixth century. He had for disciple St. Comgal, the
founder of the abbey of Benchor, and master of St. Columban. Colgan
reckons twenty-four Irish saints of the name of Fintan; but probably
several of these were the same person honored in several places. Another
St. Fintan, surnamed Munnu, who is honored on the 21st of October, was
very famous. See Colgan, Usher, and Henschenius.

FEBRUARY XVIII.

ST. SIMEON, BISHOP OF JERUSALEM, M.

From Euseb. l. 3, c. 32. Tillem. t. 1, p. 186, and t. 2. Le Quien,
Oriens Christ. t. 3, p. 140.

A.D. 116

ST. SIMEON was the son of Cleophas, otherwise called Alpheus, brother to
St. Joseph, and