is
letters: also the historians Evagrius, Theophanes, Liberatus, and
amongst the moderns, Baronius, Henschenius, Ceillier, t. 15, p. 123.

ST. MARNAN, B.C.

To his holy prayers Aidan, king of the Scots, ascribed a wonderful
victory which he gained over Ethelfrid, the pagan king of the
Northumbrian English; and by his councils Eugenius IV., who succeeded
his father Aidan in the kingdom soon after this battle, treated all the
prisoners with the utmost humanity and generosity, by which they were
gained to the Christian faith. The Northumbrian princes, Oswald and
Oswi, were instructed in our holy religion, and grounded in its spirit
by St. Marnan, {500} who died in Annandale in the year 620. His head was
kept with singular devotion at Moravia, and was carried in processions
attended by the whole clan of the Innis's, which from the earliest times
was much devoted to this saint. See the Breviary of Aberdeen, Buchanan,
l. 5, in Aidano et Eugenio Regibus, and MS. Memoirs in the Scottish
college at Paris. St. Marnan is titular saint of the church of
Aberkerdure upon the river Duvern, formerly much frequented out of
devotion to his relics kept there.

ST. CHARLES THE GOOD, EARL OF FLANDERS, M.

HE was the son of St. Canutus, king of Denmark, and of Alice of
Flanders, who, after the death of his father, carried him, then an
infant, into Flanders, in 1086. His cousin-german Baldwin the Seventh,
earl of Flanders, dying without issue in 1119, left him his heir by
will, on account of his extraordinary valor and merit. The young earl
was a perfect model of all virtues, especially devotion, charity, and
humility. Among his friends and courtiers, he loved those best who
admonished him of his faults the most freely. He frequently exhausted
his treasury on the poor, and often gave the clothes off his back to be
sold for their relief. He served them with his own hands, and
distributed clothes and bread to them in all places where he came. It
was observed that in Ipres he gave away, in one day, no less than seven
thousand eight hundred loaves. He took care for their sake to keep the
price of corn and provisions always low, and he made wholesome laws to
protect them from the oppressions of the great. This exasperated
Bertulf, who had tyrannically usurped the provostship of St. Donatian's
in Bruges, to which dignity was annexed the chancellorship of Flanders,
and his wicked relations, the great oppressors of their country. In this
horribl