uld recall his confession on the rack; but the judge condemned him to
be beheaded. The sentence filled him with joy, and he was conducted to
the place of execution, accompanied by a great multitude, and by many
priests. A shower dispersed the infidels, and the martyr was lead into a
house where he had an opportunity of taking his last leave of the
faithful without one profane person being present. He told them that in
a vision he had asked Cyprian whether the stroke of death is painful,
and that the martyr answered: "The body feels no pain when the soul
gives herself entirely to God." At the place of execution he prayed for
the peace of the church and the union of the brethren; and seemed to
foretell Lucian that he should be bishop of Carthage, as he was soon
after. Having done speaking, he bound his eyes with that half of the
handkerchief which Montanus had ordered to be kept for him, and,
kneeling in prayer, received the last stroke. These saints are joined
together on his day in the present Roman and in ancient Martyrologies.

Footnotes:
1. Apud regionantes.
2. Alimentum indeficiens.

ST. LETHARD, BISHOP OF SENLIS, C.

CALLED BY VENERABLE BEDE, LUIDHARD.

BEDE, William of Malmesbury, and other historians relate, that when
Bertha, daughter of Charibert, king of the French, was married to
Ethelbert, king of Kent, about the year 566, this holy French prelate
accompanied her into England, and resided at Canterbury in quality of
almoner and chaplain to the queen. Though his name does not occur in the
imperfect catalogue of the bishops of Senlis, which is found in the
ancient copy of St. Gregory's sacramentary, which belonged to that
church in 880, nor in the old edition of Gallia Christiana yet, upon the
authority of the English historians, {459} is inserted in the new
edition, the thirteenth, from St. Regulus, the founder of that see, one
of the Roman missionaries in Gaul about the time of St. Dionysius. The
relics of St. Regulus are venerated in the ancient collegiate church
which bears his name in Senlis, and his principal festival is kept on
the 23d of April. St. Lethard having resigned this see to St. Sanctinus,
was only recorded in England. On the high altar of St. Augustine's
monastery at Canterbury, originally called SS. Peter and Paul's, his
relics were exposed in a shrine near those of the holy king Ethelbert,
as appears from the Monasticon. St. Lethard died at Canterbury about the
year 596. Several mirac