bishop
of Utrecht, who died in 917. His relics were found in 1626 at
Keiserswerdt, in a silver shrine, together with those of St. Willeic,
likewise an Englishman, his successor in the government of this abbey;
and are still venerated in the same place, except some small portions
given to other churches by the archbishop of Cologne.[1] See Bede, Hist.
l. 5, c. 10, 12, and the historical collection of Henschenius, l. Mart.
p. 84; Fleury, l. 40; Batavia Sacra; and the Roman Martyrology, in which
his name occurs on this day. His successor, St. Willeic, is commemorated
on the 2d of March, by Wilson, in his English Martyrology, in the first
edition, an. 1608, (though omitted in the second edition, an. 1628,) and
is mentioned among the English saints, by F. Edward Maihew, Trop{}ea
Congregationis Anglicanae Bened. Rhemis, 1625; and F. Jerom Porter, in
his Flores Sanctorum Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae. Duaci, 1632.

Footnotes:
1. The acts of St. Swidbert, under the name of Marcellinus, pretended
to be St. Marchelm, a disciple or colleague of the saint, extant in
Surius, are a notorious piece of forgery of the fifteenth century.
We must not, with these false acts and many others, confound St.
Swidbert of Keiserswerdt with a younger saint of the same name, also
an Englishman, first bishop of Verden or Ferden, in Westphaly, in
807, in the reign of Charlemagne; whose body was taken up at Verden,
together with those of seven bishops his successors, in 1630. St.
Swidbert the younger is mentioned in some Martyrologies on the 30th
of April, though many moderns have confounded him with our saint.
Another holy man, called Swidbert, forty years younger than our
saint, whom some have also mistaken for the same with him, is
mentioned by Bede, (l. 4, c. 32) and was abbot of a monastery in
Cumberland, upon the river Decors, which does not appear to hive
been standing since the Conquest. See Leland, Collect. t. 2, p. 152,
and Camden's Britannia; by Gibson, col. 831. Tanner's Notitia Mon.
p. 73.

ST. ALBINUS, BISHOP OF ANGERS, C.

HE was of an ancient and noble family in Brittany,[1] and from his
childhood was fervent in every exercise of piety. He ardently sighed
after the happiness which a devout soul finds in being perfectly
disengaged from all earthly things. Having embraced the monastic state
at Cincillac, called afterwards Tintillant, a place somewhere near
Angers, he