ed in the Roman Martyrology on the 8th of December, on
which his festival is kept at Remiremont, and that of the Blessed Virgin
deferred to the day following. He settled here the rule of Luxeu, or of
St. Columban.[1] St. German made the practices of all manner of
humiliations, penance, and religion, the object of his earnest ambition,
and out of a desire of greater spiritual advancement, after some time
passed with his brother to the monastery of Luxeu, then governed by the
holy abbot, St. Walbert. Duke Gondo, one of the principal lords of
Alsace, having founded a monastery in the diocese of Basil, called the
Great Valley, in German, Granfel, and now more commonly Munster-thal, or
the Monastery of the valley, St. Walbert appointed St. German abbot of
the colony which he settled there. Afterwards the two monasteries of
Ursiein, commonly called St. Ursitz, and of St. Paul Zu-Werd, or of the
island, were also put under his direction, though he usually resided at
Granfel. Catihe, called also Boniface, who succeeded Gondo in the duchy,
inherited no share of his charity and religion, and oppressed both the
monks and poor inhabitants with daily acts of violence and arbitrary
tyranny. The holy abbot bore all private injuries in silence, but often
pleaded the cause of the poor. The duke had thrown the magistrates of
several villages into prison, and many ways distressed the other
inhabitants, laying waste their lands at pleasure, and destroying all
the fruits of their toil, and all the means of their poor subsistence.
As he was one day ravaging their lands and plundering their houses at
the head of a troop of soldiers, St. German went out to meet him, to
entreat him to spare a distressed and innocent people. The duke listened
to his remonstrances and promised to desist; but while the saint stayed
to offer up his prayers in the church of St. Maurice, the {441} soldiers
fell again to killing, burning, and plundering: and while St. German was
on his road to return to Granfel, with his companion Randoald, commonly
called Randaut, they first stripped them, and then, while they were at
their prayers, pierced them both with lances, about the year 666. Their
relics were deposited at Granfel, and were exposed in a rich shrine till
the change of religion, since which time the canonries, into which this
monastery was converted, are removed to Telsberg, or Delmont.

Footnotes:
1. Remiremont was destroyed in the tenth century by the Hungaria