and St. Scholastics, and placed those of the former at Fleury, and
those of the latter at Mans. The author of this relation is either
Adrevald or rather Adalbert, a monk of Fleury, whom some imagined
contemporary with Aigulph, but he certainly lived at least two
hundred years later, as he himself declares, and his account is in
many capital circumstances inconsistent with those of the life of
Aigulph, and with the authentic and certain history of that age, as
is demonstrated by F. Stilting, the Bollandist, in the life of St.
Aigulph, (t. 1, Sept. p. 744,) and by others. It is printed in the
Bibliotheca Floriacensis, (or of Fleury,) t. 1, p. 1, and more
correctly in Mabillon's Acta Ben. t. 2, p. 337, and the Bollandists,
21 Martij, p. 300. Soon after this relation was compiled by
Adalbert, we find it quoted by Adrevald, a monk of the same house,
in his history of several miracles wrought by the relics of this
holy patriarch. (See Dom. Clemencez, Hist. Liter. t. 5, p. 516.)
This Adrevald wrote also the life of St. Aigulph, who, passing from
Fleury to Lerins, and being made abbot of that house, established
there an austere reformation of the order: but by the contrivance of
certain rebellious monks, joined in a conspiracy with the count of
Usez, and some other powerful men, was seized by violence, and
carried to the isle Caprasia, (now called Capraia,) situated between
Corsica and the coast of Tuscany, where he was murdered, with three
companions, about the year 679, on the 3rd day of September, on
which he is honored as a martyr at Lerins. The relics of these
martyrs were honorably conveyed thither soon after their death. F.
Vincent Barrali, in his History of Lerins, affirms that they still
remain there; but this can be only true of part, for the body of St.
Aigulph was translated to the Benedictin priory at Provins, in the
diocese of Sens, and is to this day honored there, as Mabillon (Saec.
2 Ben. pp. 666 and 742) and Stilting (t. 1. Sept.) demonstrate, from
the constant tradition of that monastery, and the authority of Peter
Cellensis and several other irrefragable vouchers.
That the greatest part at least of the relics of St. Benedict and
St. Scholastica still remain at Mount Casino, is demonstrated by
Angelus de Nuce, in his dissertation on this subject, by F.
Stilting, in h
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