t, Illyrici Sacr. T. i. p. 355. Saint
Domnius, who is honored among the saints on the 7th of May, is said
to have been ordained by him first bishop of Salona, then the
metropolis, which see was afterwards translated to Spalatro.
7. Cant. v.

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ST. GREGORY, B.

HE was one of the principal senators of Autun, and continued from the
death of his wife a widower till the age of fifty-seven, at which time,
for his singular virtues, he was compelled from his private penitential
life, and consecrated bishop of Langres, which see he governed with
admirable prudence and zeal thirty-three years, sanctifying his pastoral
labors by the most profound humility, assiduous prayer, and
extraordinary abstinence and mortification. An incredible number of
infidels were converted by him from idolatry, and worldly Christians
from their disorders. He died about the beginning of the year 541, but
some days after the Epiphany. Out of devotion to St. Benignus, he
desired to be buried near that saint's tomb at Dijon, which town was
then in the diocese of Langres, and had often been the place of his
residence. This was executed by his virtuous son Tetricus--who succeeded
him in his bishopric. The 4th of January seems to have been the day of
the translation of his relics. He is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.
See his miracles recorded by St. Gregory of Tours. Vit. Patr. c. 7.
Hist. Franc. l. 3, c. 15, 19. Cointe Annal. et Gall. Christ.

ST. RIGOBERT, OR ROBERT.

HE was abbot of Orbais, afterwards bishop of Rheims, was favored with
the gift of miracles, and suffered an unjust banishment under Charles
Martel. He was recalled by Pepin, but finding Milo in possession of his
see, retired to Gernicour, a village four or five leagues from Rheims,
where he led a retired life in the exercises of penance and prayer. He
died about the year 750, and was buried in the church of St. Peter at
Gernicour, which he had built. Hincmar, the fifth bishop from him,
translated his relics to the abbey of St. Theodoric, and nine years
after, to the church of St. Dionysius at Rheims. Fulco, Hincmar's
successor, removed them into the metropolitan church of our lady, in
which the greater part is preserved in a rich shrine; but a portion is
kept in the church of St. Dionysius there, and another portion in the
cathedral of Paris, where a chapel bears his name. See his anonymous
life in Bollandus; also Flodoard, l. 2. Hist. Rhemens. &c.

ST. RUMON, B.