ace to the castle or Great Chatelet; of all
which works certain vestiges are to be seen at this day.
6. Some think that Catualliacum was rather Montmartre than St. Denys's,
and that the church built there in the time of St. Genevieve stood
near the bottom of the mountain, because it is said in her life to
have been at the place where St. Dionysius suffered martyrdom; and
it is added, that she often visited the place, attended by many
virgins, watched there every Saturday night in prayer, and that one
night when she was going thither with her companions in the rain,
and through very dirty roads, the lamp that was carried before her
was extinguished, but lighted again upon her taking it into her own
hands: all which circumstances seem not to agree to a place two
leagues distant, like St. Denys's.
7. The author of the life of St. Bathildes testifies, that Clovis built
this church for the use of monks; which Mabillon confirms by other
proofs, (Op. Posth. t. 2, p. 356.) He doubts not but it continued in
their hands, till being burnt by the Normans in 856 (as appears from
Stephen of Tournay, ep. 146,) it was soon after rebuilt, and given
to secular canons. These, in punishment of a sedition, were expelled
by the authority of Eugenius III., and Suger, abbot of St. Denys's,
and prime minister to Lewis VII., or the Young, in 1148, who
introduced into this church twelve regular canons of the order of
St. Austin, chosen out of St. Victor's abbey, which had been erected
about forty years before, and was then most famous for many great
men, the austerity of its rule, and the piety and learning which
flourished in it. Cardinal Francis Rochefoucault, the history of
whose most edifying life and great actions will be a model of all
pastoral virtues to all ages to come, having established an
excellent reformation in the abbey of St. Vincent, at regular
canons, at Senlis, when he was bishop of that see, being nominated
abbot of St. Genevieve's by Lewis XIII., called from St. Vincent's
F. Charles Faure, and twelve others, in 1624, and by their means
introduced the same reformation in this monastery, which was
confirmed in 1634, when F. Faure was chosen abbot coadjutor to the
cardinal. He died in odor of sanctity in 667, the good cardinal
having passed to a better life in 1645.
8. _De Miraculo Ardentium_. See