ON ST. SCARIBERGA, WIFE AND VIRGIN OF ST. ARNULPHUS THE MARTYR,
IN THE AQUILINE FOREST BETWEEN PARIS AND CHARTRES.
ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE VI CENTURY.
PRELIMINARY COMMENTARY.
The cult, relics, and Acts of the Saint.
Scariberga, wife and virgin of St. Arnulphus (S.)
BY THE AUTHOR G. C.
To the holy virgin husband we join on this day the holy virgin wife, named Scariberga, although in most Acts she is said to have migrated to eternal glory on the VI and V Nones of October. For the Acts of these holy spouses are so connected The cult of St. Scariberga is proved from the Martyrologies, that they can scarcely be separated. Add that the blessed wife is recorded in certain Martyrologies about this day. Our manuscript Florarium on the XVII of July joins St. Scariberga to St. Theodosia the virgin: Saussay in the elogium of St. Arnulphus mentions the same Saint, and moreover in volume 2 of his Gallican Martyrology, page 1242, placed her in the catalogue in these words: "Blessed Scariberga, virgin of Reims, noble and devout, spouse of St. Arnulphus, afterward bishop of Tours and martyr, with whom she made an eternal compact of virginity; by whom also she was consecrated and clothed with the sacred veil; after whose slaying, embracing a religious and solitary life, she strenuously persevered in all perfection of sanctity until her death in a little field of the Aquiline forest of the tract of Chartres." Arthur, in the Sacred Gynaeceum on the XVIII of July, thus records her: "In the district of Chartres, of blessed Scariberga the virgin, granddaughter of blessed Remigius bishop of Reims, who in assiduous contempt, and meditation of heavenly things, consummated a wonderful life." Our François Lahier in the Menology of virgins on the same day affirms that St. Remigius was the paternal or maternal uncle of St. Scariberga. I know not whence Arthur and Lahier drew out this consanguinity of Scariberga with Remigius. Whatever be the truth of the matter, which I think is not easily to be detected, at least the monuments cited in the Acts of St. Arnulphus, and the manuscript Acts, to be given after this Commentary, call Scariberga the granddaughter of king Clovis. Finally, that I may put an end to the Martyrologists, Castellanus in his Universal Martyrology mentions the same Saint on the II of October.
[2] Although in the ancient Martyrologies her memory is not found, and by other monuments yet from elsewhere the cult of her is sufficiently established: for the Thesaurus of Anecdota, recently edited by Edmond Martène, volume 3, has a sermon, drawn out from a manuscript of St. Audoenus, in which our Saint is thus invoked in number 4: "May blessed Scareberga too, a comely and renowned virgin, obtain for us the joys of eternal blessedness." Moreover the annual memory of St. Scariberga seems once to have been celebrated with an Office: for I have the Life of that holy Virgin, divided into eight proper Lessons, which Frederic Flouet transmitted from Rouen to our Elders, and which after this Commentary I shall subject to the eyes and judgment of the curious reader. Meanwhile I here exhibit the verses which are subjoined to those Lessons in this manner:
Among the camps of God, the shining lights of heaven, The renowned Arnulphus, precious martyr, glows red; But also, joined to Christ, the most pious virgin Scariberga. He, like that flower of the rose, a diadem by the shed blood; She holds an eternal garland, gleaming white as the lilies. He rejoices to have approached the strong cohorts of God, Worthily joined to the holy martyrs among the stars; She rejoices without end with the virginal choruses, Singing new songs to the Bridegroom, the height of gladness.
[3] and by the veneration of the relics Finally, from the honorable preservation of the relics it is clear enough that from time immemorial cult was exhibited to this holy Virgin, since in our Acts, to be edited in the first place, it is thus read in number 5: "Her relics are devoutly kept in a gilded wooden coffer in the left corner of the greater altar of the monastery of St. Arnulphus of Crépy of the Cluniac Order of the diocese of Senlis." Arthur, in his Neustria Pia, page 59, praises a catalogue of the relics which were once honored in the monastery of St. Audoenus, in which, among other remains of the Saints, is reckoned the coffer of the body of St. Scariberga. I do not know how or when the remains of St. Scariberga came to the monastery of St. Arnulphus or of St. Audoenus. At least the Rouen Breviary of the year 1627, in the proper Lessons of St. Arnulphus, thus speaks at the same time of the burial of his spouse: "In the Aquiline forest of the territory of Chartres it was honorably buried (namely the body of St. Arnulphus) by the care of Scariberga herself, who, having professed the monastic, that is, solitary, life, the course of her life being accomplished there, obtained a common tomb with her spouse." Certain Acts of St. Arnulphus, and Breviaries, adduced in the Preliminary Commentary to his Life, also testify that St. Scariberga, surviving her husband, lived in the Aquiline forest, and there after some years was buried. I say indefinitely "after some years"; because it is uncertain how long the blessed Virgin lived there after the slaying of St. Arnulphus. For the manuscript Acts, to be printed in the first place, assert that she there led a life in ashes and hair-shirt for three years. But others say that she, seven years of penance being completed, migrated to heaven. But the Chartres Lessons, cited in the preceding Commentary, without any note of time affirm that she died as old age grew heavy. Now I see that nothing remains except that we forewarn some things about her Acts.
[4] We have three transcripts of the Acts; the first exists in the Life of St. Arnulphus, In certain manuscript Acts Patricius, Apostle of the Irish, taken from a manuscript codex of our Clermont College. But since it agrees with the third manuscript of ours in the chief points, the same judgment is to be had of it which we shall soon pass on that third manuscript. The second, copied I know not from what codex, Ildephonsus Vrayet, a Benedictine monk, transmitted in the year 1668 to Papebroch, to whom we owe also other Acts of the Saints. In this second copy the anonymous author rendered certain things more credible: for when he speaks of the Spanish journey of St. Arnulphus, he does not say that he went to Spain to extirpate idolatry, as is narrated in the preceding Acts of St. Arnulphus, but to restore the faith fallen in the Spains. He calls the brother of St. Scariberga Patricius and bishop of the Morini; but nowhere asserts that he was the famous apostle of the Irish or Scots, which the other two manuscripts wrongly affirm, as we shall soon see. But although that writer was so prudent as to contain himself within the bounds of probability, yet from his style he seems more recent, and certainly is not very ancient, since at the end he makes mention of the Cluniac Order. Yet the Acts written by him, as more excellent than the rest, we shall print in the first place.
[5] The third transcript, which our Frederic Flouet sent from Rouen in the year 1644, is wrongly called the brother of St. Scariberga. is divided into eight Lessons, as I noted above. In it, among other things, Patricius the apostle of Ireland displeases me, who is said to be the brother of St. Scariberga. For how could that Patricius be the brother of St. Scariberga, who, according to the Acts illustrated by Papebroch on the XVII of March, died more than eighty years old in the year 460, when Scariberga most probably was not yet born? I suspect that the authors of this anachronism, deceived by the similarity of the name, confused a certain other Patricius with the celebrated apostle of Ireland. But you will say: Who then is this Patricius, bishop of the Morini, who is here mentioned in the Acts? I candidly confess that I am ignorant of this. Malbrancq indeed, volume 1 On the Morini, book 2, chapter 19, thus writes: "We shall give, at the year 424, Patricius the apostle of Ireland laboring signally among our people of Boulogne for eight years." Then in chapter 36 of the same book he thus pronounces: "This is that Patricius, whom, although Ireland looks up to and claims as her own, yet that the Morini too could embrace him for some years, both the manuscripts, and the catalogues of the bishops of this diocese, and the Life of St. Arnulphus of Soissons (he doubtless meant to say, of Tours), abundantly testify: which testimonies at last confirmed for me a belief long ambiguous, when, revolving the fit time in which he could here fix his seat, various things shone upon me." But our Papebroch, in the Preliminary Commentary to the Life of St. Patricius, §10, shows that Malbrancq too quickly confirmed a belief before doubtful with himself. But these things properly do not pertain to our purpose, since even in Malbrancq's own opinion that Patricius is too old to have been able to be the brother of St. Scariberga.
[6] The Sammarthani, in the Catalogue of the bishops of Boulogne, make St. Antimundus in the year 531 the first prelate of the Morini, It is inquired; which Patricius and at the same time made mention of a certain Patricius thus: "St. Antimundus or Aumondus, sent by Lord Remigius of Reims in the year 531 to promulgate the faith of Christ to those peoples: he, with Patricius and Rusticus, found and took up the bodies of SS. Victor and Ursus the martyrs." The Sammarthani seem here to have swallowed a gross anachronism: for Fredegar the scholastic, in the Chronicle which Ruinart edited after the works of St. Gregory of Tours, at the VII year of Theuderic, that is, of Christ 602, of this finding of the bodies, unless I am mistaken, thus speaks: "In that year the body of St. Victor, who had suffered at Solothurn with St. Ursus, is found by blessed Aeconius, bishop of Maurienne. On a certain night, in his own city, it is revealed to him through a dream, that, rising forthwith, he should go to the church which queen Sedeleuba had built in the suburb of Geneva, in the middle of the church, in a designated place, where the holy body was. And when he had hastened to Geneva, with the blessed bishops Rusticus and Patricius, making a three-days' fast, a light appeared through the night, where that glorious and splendid body was; which, in silence, these three pontiffs, with tears and prayers, the stone being raised, found buried in a silver chest, whose face they found red as if of a living man. And there the prince Theuderic was present, and, bestowing many things on this church, confirmed there the greatest part of the property of Warnacharius. At that holy tomb wonderful powers, from the very day on which it was found, the Lord granting, are shown with complete constancy." Whoever desires to read this narration of Fredegar more clearly explained, let him go to Le Cointe in the Annals of the Franks, volume 2, at the year of Christ 602, number 1.
[7] could be the brother of St. Scariberga. Nor does the opinion of the Sammarthani stand concerning the time of the episcopate of Antimundus, if the things are true which Le Cointe, volume 1 of the work just cited, at the year 501, number 3, thus writes: "In this year Antimundus was appointed by Remigius the metropolitan of Reims the first bishop of the Morini: for he sat only nineteen years, and Athalbertus his successor is found to have died in the year of Christ five hundred and fifty-two, having borne the pontificate for two and thirty years. Matthew Despretz, archdeacon of Thérouanne, that he may prove Antimundus to have been set over the Morini as bishop immediately from the baptism of king Clovis, says that he did not penetrate into the province decreed for him until the third year after, because his way was blocked by Chararic, lord of the Morini; and he adds that Athalbertus was likewise hindered for nearly two years from residing in the episcopate to which he had been chosen. The same chronology Jacques Malbrancq enters upon. Neither brings any authority or conjecture of any credit. It is much more probable that Chararic, who without doubt died a Christian, was brought to the Christian faith some years after the conversion of Clovis, nor was there thought before of sending a bishop to the Morini." Thus he. It is not for this place to settle that controversy, since the year marked on either side differs at least much from the opinion of the Sammarthani. Nor is there need laboriously to investigate this matter, since it suffices us that Patricius, here mentioned by the Sammarthani, according to Fredegar is too young to be probably called the brother of St. Scariberga. The same Le Cointe, at the year of Christ 502, number 4, mentions a certain Patricius who then occupied the chair of Bayeux. But although the time allows that this one was the brother of St. Scariberga, yet because a solid reason for proving it is not at hand, I leave this consanguinity to be detected by others, and now subject both Acts from our manuscripts to the press.
THE FIRST ACTS, BY AN ANONYMOUS AUTHOR
From a certain manuscript, whose transcript Ildephonsus Vrayet the Benedictine transmitted in the year 1668.
Scariberga, wife and virgin of St. Arnulphus (S.)
BHL Number: 7512
FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS.
We read that Scariberga, granddaughter of Clovis king of the Franks, sister of St. Patricius the first bishop of the Morini a, St. Scariberga, marriage being entered upon, keeps her virginity, whose metropolis is called Thérouanne, was betrothed to Arnulphus the count, consul of Reims. She was sublime in worldly dignity, but by the ardor of faith and the zeal of piety after baptism she lived humble; distinguished, she went forth with the privileges of spouses, but, clothed in the perpetual flower of virginity, she shone in a hair-shirt. She gave no part of her time to the relaxation of the mind, as is the custom in the court; she was assiduous in the divine offices, most frequently approached the sacred synaxis, and gave herself wholly to good works. Outwardly indeed she shone with magnificent adornment, but inwardly she pleased the Lord with the figure of virtues. Her spouse, himself also a virgin, went before by his example, and cherished the virginity of his wife, while with her he had leisure with equal zeal for the sacred vigils and alms.
[2] But when Arnulphus, an angel revealing, took the most difficult journey full of perils, and, her husband being on pilgrimage, to that holy land which received the wailing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which heard him preaching, which was amazed at him giving, by admirable works, most certain signs of his divinity, which beheld him lifted on the cross, and by his own blood expiating our sins: then she went out more rarely into public, walked with downcast eyes, and, under the leader of the spiritual life and master St. Remigius, in a short time held such a degree of sanctity, that she was an admiration, an example, and an ornament to the most Christian king, the princes and first of the nobility, and finally to the whole kingdom. O blessed marriage, not known by the corruption of the flesh, but consecrated by spiritual charity, through the expressed vows of each, in the hands of St. Remigius celebrating the sacrosanct sacrifice of the Mass, to the Lord our God, adorned with virginal glory and angelic purity of life!
[3] At last Arnulphus, by angelic admonition returned into Gaul and his own palaces, and, returned to his homeland, some miracles being wrought by him, was initiated into the minor Orders. And when the people of Reims proclaimed him to be holy, and the fame of his miracles could not lie hidden, fleeing the honor of the people fleeing to him, he resolved to postpone himself and his own to himself, and again, poor, following the Lord in clerical habit, made a pilgrimage, and, by the singular goodness and solicitude of the divine providence, third after St. Martin, was consecrated bishop of Tours, an angel willing and pointing him out, with the greatest joy of all the bishops and of the whole people, who could not sufficiently marvel, after the enjoined and accomplished course of a public fast, that they were heard by most evident heavenly signs and miracles, and that they had Arnulphus the prince, the granddaughter's husband (nephew-in-law) of the most Christian king, as their prelate; namely at that time when the diocese of Tours, on account of the persecution of St. Brice b, and of two prelates succeeding one another in turn while he still survived, seemed to be neglected, and to need so great a pastor; although afterward, fleeing the praise of men on account of some miracles, the divine Power urging, he impelled himself to restore the faith fallen in the Spains, where his life, conspicuous to all the provinces of the Christians, had Clovis the king as a helper, who himself also, on bent knees, on account of the aforesaid miracles of his consecration, had sought and received the blessing from the same, so that he supplied to him and to others, whom it was necessary to summon with him as cultivators of the Lord's vineyard, the necessary ornaments and sacred vessels. But among others whom St. Arnulphus summoned to the Spains, there was one of his canons of Tours, the most learned of all, to whom he was wont to confess, whom afterward he consecrated bishop c.
[4] he distributes his goods to the canons, But meanwhile Scariberga was on the lips of all, and thence took occasion of serving God more fervently; and thus for very many years without her husband, not without the Lord, she remained in honors and in the court until the death of St. Remigius; until, St. Arnulphus returning from the conversion and preaching of the Spains, both by equal consent and devotion granted their county and their goods to the metropolitan church of Reims, that thence the canons and ministers of the church might be nourished: and so she induced it into real irrevocable possession, so that she reserved nothing for herself except a daily livelihood to be provided by the ecclesiastics as long as she lived, the crowd
of nobles and the bands of servants, which she before had, being dismissed, to whom she supplied all things necessary: who, in hatred of so great virtue and virginity, whence all these things had taken their beginning, when they saw themselves dismissed by her (since indeed she was unable to supply them anything), driven into rage and by most hateful spite, made the holy Arnulphus a martyr. O distinguished marriage, to be preached throughout the whole world!
[5] [and, after the slaying of her spouse, living solitarily and hardly, she piously dies.] Scariberga indeed was a frail woman, of tender condition, delicate of body, heaped with nobility and riches, enlarged with honors, thronged with servants, and did not fulfill the care of the flesh in desires; but from all these, as from things alien, she withdrew her mind. O strong woman, and in a wonderful manner strong in the Lord! who not only overcame the fallacious enticements of the world, but, conquering her sex and the age, so warred for the Lord, that she who had once sought by a straight path to strive to solid and immortal glory, judged all things to be despised by her, and to be counted as nothing, while she should attain to those things which she had instituted. Finally, St. Arnulphus being crowned with the glory of martyrdom, and wonderfully buried in the parts of the Aquiline forest, she erected there an oratory in honor of blessed Remigius, which afterward was changed into a basilica of St. Arnulphus on account of the miracles wrought by him; but also the town is called St. Arnulphus. There she led a solitary life in ashes and hair-shirt for three years, using beans and pods for her daily food, on Lord's days and other solemnities, even at Easter, content with barley bread and water alone. Observing this sum of an austere and penitent life with her own brother St. Patricius, at last, surviving, distinguished for virtues, she flew to heaven on the fifth Nones of October. Her relics are devoutly kept in a gilded wooden coffer in the left corner of the greater altar of the monastery of St. Arnulphus of Crépy d, of the Cluniac Order, of the diocese of Senlis.
ANNOTATIONS.
THE OTHER ACTS
Divided into eight Lessons.
From a certain Rouen manuscript, from which Father Frederic Flouet copied them in the year 1644.
Scariberga, wife and virgin of St. Arnulphus (S.)
BHL Number: 7513
FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS.
Lesson I. Blessed Scariberga, therefore, noble by race, but nobler by the disposition of her mind, from the very rudiments of infancy worshiped the almighty Lord with a wonderful service of devotion: St. Scariberga shining with various virtues, for although sprung from a royal stock, yet in all things, inclined to humility, she subjected herself to him with the whole love of her mind, who, being Lord and King of glory, deigned to become man of a Virgin, and redeemed the world by his own passion. For, endowed with faith, supported by hope, fervent with charity, distinguished in morals, prompt to the pursuit of prayer, she frequently frequented the thresholds of the churches, where she drank in the lessons of heavenly doctrine with the greatest avidity. She did not rejoice to be mingled in girlish games, nor did she wish to be present at the choruses of players or singing-women, but thirstily panted for the rewards of eternal joys.
[2] to blessed Arnulphus Lesson II. At the same time blessed Arnulphus, conspicuous for nobility, distinguished for elegance of morals, dwelt in the court of king Clovis; who, namely the bravest of kings, by St. Remigius, pontiff of Reims, converted from the worship of idolatry to the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, obtained the grace of baptism with the whole nation of the Franks: from whom blessed Arnulphus, son of the aforesaid prelate in baptism, so earned the honor of friendship and familiarity, that he gave him his granddaughter in marriage, namely blessed Scariberga.
[3] is betrothed; Lesson III. On the appointed day, therefore, the chaste maiden is betrothed by the chaste youth, beautiful indeed in external bodily features, but more beautiful in the internal virtues of the soul. Both, finally, despising the enticement of carnal union, chose to lead a chaste life. Him indeed blessed Remigius, after he had passed some years in pilgrimage under a lay habit, as he had asked, the hair of his head being laid down, consecrated a cleric, and, promoting him to the ecclesiastical Orders, adorned him with the office of exorcist. But she deserved to be crowned with the diadem of inviolate virginity, and to be reckoned among the prudent virgins. She was adorned not with gold or pearls or the adornment of precious garments, which suit prostitutes and unchaste women for the destruction of many, but with the beauty of spiritual virtues, as befits the virgins of Christ, for the salvation of many.
[4] who, after a long pilgrimage Lesson IV. The most blessed Arnulphus, knowing himself an exile and a sojourner in this world, and thirsting for the dwelling of the heavenly homeland, commended blessed Scariberga to St. Remigius, and again took the journey of a salvific pilgrimage. First, therefore, he sought the tomb of blessed Saturninus at Toulouse, and after hastened to St. Hilary at Poitiers: thence to Tours he turned his step to blessed Martin, where, an angelic oracle forewarning, though compelled, the man perfect in letters and morals, took up the pontifical infula. And because episcopal ambition is wont to become a diminution of the virtues, fearing through this a detriment to his salvation, kindled with greater zeal, he hastened to the Spains to preach the word of God, and led the king of that country with all his people, by coruscating miracles, to the faith of Christ. But among all the places which he traversed, the divine grace accompanying, he wrought very many miracles; among which distinguished works he raised the bodies of three dead men. But, his distinguished deeds being omitted, which the text of his life or passion abundantly pursues, let us proceed succinctly to the issue of things.
[5] returns to his homeland and is slain. Lesson V. Blessed Remigius, therefore, being received by the angelic choirs into heavenly glory, blessed Arnulphus, learning of his death, returned into Gaul, and began to frequent his tomb, distinguished with wonderful powers. But on a certain night, as he was going thither, as was his custom, for the sake of praying, the servants of his spouse found him, and, as it is the custom for the malicious always to envy the good, persuaded by demoniac madness, assailed the Man of God with cudgels and swords, and gravely wounded him: one of whom poised the iron at his head, and prostrated him to the ground. But, the blows being inflicted, departing, they left him half-dead; and, the spirit throbbing in his breast alone, his spouse, namely blessed Scariberga, came to him, and began most vehemently to weep. And when she asked what she should do with his body, he, as he was able, his hand stretched out, consecrated a veil, and imposed it on her head, admonishing her concerning the resolve of pure virginity, and the glory of eternal happiness: he charges also that she should carry the lifeless body to Tours to its proper see, and there bury it with all diligence. And, all the orders flowing together at his death with the bishop of that place, blessed Remigius too was seen to be present, to whom blessed Arnulphus: "Lord," saying, "holy father, behold, from thee I receive the viaticum, and I go with thee." At this voice, many beholding, a dove whiter than snow went out from his mouth, and penetrated the heavens.
[6] Lesson VI. But blessed Scariberga honorably treated his body, Scariberga the body of her spouse wrapped it in linens, embalmed it with spices, and, placed on a wagon with a sarcophagus, began to carry it to the place which he had commanded: on which conveyance of the body, whatever of the sick met the Saint, by the power of the holy Martyr, they deserved to be freed from whatever discomfort they were held by. With which triumph of glory accompanying the virtue-bearing clod, following farther, they made a halt in the district of Château of the Aquiline forest, in the place named Ybernium, above the river Rebais. But in the same forest count Dordingus was driving a stag in the hunt, which, fleeing, stood still near the sarcophagus of the Man of God, and the pursuing dogs, deprived of the office of barking, the divine power compelled to stand at a distance.
[7] Lesson VII. The count, therefore, astonished at the novelty of so great a prodigy, asks the blessed virgin Scariberga the event of the matter: famous for miracles she buries in the Aquiline forest to whom she related in order the life and merit of the blessed Martyr. He gave thanks to the Lord, and offered many gifts to the Saint. On the following day, when they wished to make the begun journey, in every way hindered by the divine will, they could in no way move the wagon. Then the aforesaid count, burning with greater devotion toward the Saint of God, handed over to him under a charter all that he possessed there by hereditary right, and there decently and honorably buried him. Him being buried, the venerable Virgin went more quickly to Tours, and narrated the things that had happened, handed over the inheritance of blessed Arnulphus with other things to St. Maurice b, and returned with her own to the place where she had buried the Man of God; where she built an oratory, and sent to her brother, named Patricius, bishop of Thérouanne, that he should come and consecrate it. But he was by no means found, because he had already set out beyond the sea to preach the word of God: for he first brought the word of salvation to the nation of Ireland c. The Scots being converted to the Catholic faith, he returned to his own see. Again his sister sent to him, that he should come and consecrate the basilica which she had built in honor of the holy Remigius and Arnulphus.
[8] and there leading a solitary and austere life she holily dies. Lesson VIII. The bishop coming, and the oratory being dedicated in honor of the Saints, they rested in the same place, namely Patricius and his venerable sister, for three years and a half d leading together an eremitic life, and paying their vows to God. After this, when blessed Patricius desired to return to his own see, an angel of the Lord stood by him, foretelling his death, and that in the oratory e which he had dedicated the end of his life was to be resolved: who related the angelic vision to his sister, and, full of the merits of the virtues, migrated to the Lord on the XIII Kalends of April. After whose death blessed Scariberga, mourning in ashes and hair-shirt, remained there, and afflicted her flesh with very many kinds of abstinence. On Lord's days she fed on barley bread, and at Easter and other distinguished solemnities used beans and pods for delicacies. It is related also, that when she hastened to Chartres to the veneration of the blessed Mother of God and Virgin Mary, by her a blind woman was enlightened f. And a certain man in a fever, taking of the water with which the Saint had washed her hands, was immediately restored to health. Renowned for these and other powers, seven years of dedicated penance at the memorial of the Saints being completed, the day of her death coming, she asked of the almighty Lord that whoever
should come in the name of God, and of the holy Remigius, Arnulphus, and Patricius, to that same place to pray, might obtain the vows of their petition. Knowing therefore that she was heard with the mercy of God, on the VI Nones of October she migrated to the heavenly glory, and, adorned with the lamp of good work, entered the bridal chamber of the heavenly spouse: to whom is honor and glory with the Father and the Holy Spirit unto the ages of ages. Amen.