which he had built of wood, on
the spot upon which the abbatial house now stands. These relics were
translated into the new church when it was built, but during the ravages
of the Normans they were removed to several places in France, and at
length into Flanders. At present the chief portions are preserved at
Saint Peter's, at Blaudinberg, at Ghent, and at Montreuil in Lower
Picardy, of which he is titular patron. In Picardy, he is commonly
called St. Vignevaley, and more commonly Walovay; in Brittany, Guignole,
or more frequently Vennole; in other parts of France, Guingalois; in
England, Winwaloe or Winwaloc. His name occurs in the English litany of
the seventh age, published by Mabillon.[2] He is titular saint of St.
Guingualoe, a priory at Chateau du Loir, dependent on Marmoutier at
Tours, and of several churches and parishes in France. His father, St.
Fragan, is titular saint of a parish in the diocese of St. Brieuc,
called Plou-Fragan, of which he is said to have been lord, and of
another in the diocese of Leon, called St. Frogan; also, St. Gwen his
mother, of one in the same diocese called Ploe-Gwen, and of another in
that of Quimper. In France she is usually called St. Blanche, the
British word Gwen signifying Blanche or White. His brothers are honored
in Brittany, St. Guethenoc, on the 5th of November, and St. Jacut or
James, on the 8th of February and the 3d of March; the latter is patron
of the abbey of St. Jagu, in the diocese of Dol. St. Balay, or Valay,
chief patron of the parish of Plou-balai, in the diocese of St. Malo,
and a St. Martin, are styled disciples of St. Winwaloe, and before their
monastic profession were lords of Rosmeur, and Ros-madeuc. Some other
disciples of our saint are placed in the calendars of several churches
in Brittany, as St. Guenhael his successor, St. Idunet or Yonnet, St.
Dei, &c. See the ancient life of St. Winwaloe, the first of the three
given by Bollandus and Henschenius; that in Surius and Cressy not being
genuine. See also Baillet and Lobineau, Lives of the Saints of Brittany,
pp. 43 and 48.

Footnotes:
1. Laureaca.
2. Mabil. in Analect.

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ST. LAMALISSE, C.

HE flourished in great sanctity in the isle of Aran, on the west of
Scotland, in the seventh century, and from him a neighboring small
island is called to this day St. Lamalisse's Isle. See MS. memoirs in
the Scottish College at Paris.

MARCH IV.

ST. CASIMIR, PRINCE OF POLAND.

From his life comp