, being divided into two
choirs, sung the psalms proper for the hour of the day or night, he
endeavored as well as he could to join not only his heart, but also his
voice, with theirs. His attention to God he seemed never to relax, and
frequently and earnestly exhorted his monks to a constant observance of
the rule he had given them. "You must not think," said he, "that the
constitutions which you have received from me were my own invention,
for, having in my frequent journeys visited seventeen well-ordered
monasteries, I informed myself of all their laws and rules, and picking
out the best among them, these I have recommended to you." The saint
expired soon after, having received the viaticum on the 12th of January,
in 690. His relics, according to Malmesbury,[4] were translated to
Thorney abbey, in 970, but the monks of Glastenbury thought themselves
possessed at least of part of that treasure.[5] The true name of our
saint was Biscop {133} Baducing, as appears from Eddius-Stephen, in his
life of St. Wilfrid. The English Benedictins honor him as one of the
patrons of their congregation, and he is mentioned in the Roman
Martyrology on this day. See his life in Bede's history of the first
abbots of Weremouth, published by Sir James Ware, at Dublin, in 1664.

Footnotes:
1. A plough, or family of land, was as much as one plough, or one yoke
of oxen could throw up in a year, or as sufficed for the maintenance
of a family.
2. Hist. l. 3, c. 25.
3. The abbeys of Weremouth and Jarrow were destroyed by the Danes. Both
were rebuilt in part, and from the year 1083 were small priories or
cells dependent on the abbey of Durham, till their dissolution {}th
of Henry VIII.
4. Malmes. l. 4, de Pontif.
5. See Monast. Ang. t. 1, p. 4, and John of Glastenbury, Hist. Glasten.

TYGRIUS, A PRIEST,

WHO was scourged, tormented with the disjointing of his bones, stripped
of all his goods, and sent into banishment; and EUTROPIUS, lector, and
precentor of the church of Constantinople, who died in prison of his
torments, having been scourged, his cheeks torn with iron hooks, and his
sides burnt with torches; are honored in the Roman Martyrology with the
title of martyrs on the 12th of January.

ST. AELRED,

ABBOT OF RIEVAL, OR RIDAL, IN YORKSHIRE.

HE was of noble descent, and was born in the north of England, in 1109.
Being educated in learning and piety, he was invited by David, the pious
king of Scotland, to