ON ST. LINENTIUS, CONFESSOR, NEAR TOURS IN GAUL.
Sixth Century.
CommentaryLinentius, Confessor in Gaul (Saint)
[1] The monastery of Micy is situated not far from Orleans, on the little Loire River, and is commonly now called St. Maximin's, in French Saint-Mesmin de Micy, founded in the times of Clovis I by St. Euspicius and St. Maximinus, from whom it takes its name. The sanctity of that illustrious monastery, says Charles Saussay in the Annals of the Church of Orleans, book 3, section 4, is attested by the distinguished Abbots, Holy monks of Micy: monks, and Confessors who came forth from this monastery and were enrolled in the number of the Saints: Euspicius, Maximinus the Elder, Avitus, Liphardus, Leonard, Urbicius, Agilus, Theodemirus, Maximinus the Younger, Viator, Laetus, Calesius, Constantius, Frambold, Launomar, and St. Maxima; to whom are added Florentius, Rufinus, Euchardus, Ducatus, and Linentius, who are venerated in various places. Of some of these we possess the Lives; of most we still lack them.
[2] And concerning St. Linentius (unless perhaps he should be called Liventius), nothing has yet been found beyond his name; but that name, together with those of the others, the joint solemnity of many of them, is inscribed in the Gallican Martyrology of Andreas Saussay on June 28 in these words: In the monastery of Micy near Orleans, on the Sunday within the Octave of the Blessed Sacrament, there is celebrated the feast of the Saints: Maximinus the Younger, the fifth Abbot of that monastery, and of St. Viator the Levite, Constantius, Frambald, Florentius, Rufinus, Euchardus, Leonard, Ducatus, Linentius, and several other monks of that monastery. Hugo Menard has the same, somewhat more briefly, in the Benedictine Martyrology.
[3] The particular feast of St. Linentius. But, unless conjecture deceives us, his particular commemoration is observed on January 25. For on that day Maurolycus writes, and following him Felicius and Ferrari: Near Tours, of Liventius the Confessor. Ferrari suspects that he is Viventius, of whom we treated on January 13. But the Cologne Martyrology printed in 1490 and the manuscript Florarium have: In the district of Tours, of St. Linetus the Confessor. The Carthusians of Cologne in the Additions to Usuard: Of Linetus the Confessor.