Cumianus

ON SAINT CUMIANUS,

SCOTTISH BISHOP, AT BOBBIO IN ITALY.

CENT. VIII.

HISTORICAL SUMMARY,

From the Monuments of Bobbio in Ughellus.

Cumianus, Scottish Bishop, at Bobbio in Italy (S.)

G. H.

Ferdinand Ughellus, Volume 4 of Italy

sacred, treats of the Bishops of Bobbio;

& to them subjoins the ancient Abbots

of Bobbio, Elogium from the Chronicle of Bobbio, of whom the fifth he names

Congelus; & there adds

these: He lived in that monastery, in Luitprand the King's

times, Cumianus the Bishop:

& there to heaven flew off, with abdicated the Priesthood Monk

now made, about whom in the Chronicle of Bobbio

these are held: Saint Cumianus the Bishop, in

Scotia the seventy-fifth year already living,

with God's love kindled, to the Italian borders came, located

in the monastery of Bobbio, namely of S. Columban.

In which indeed monastery, under the dogma, that is

the constitutions of S. Columban, for twenty years &

more strenuously he served. He was indeed mild, prudent,

pious to the brethren, & pacific: he died there of age

his arms completed ninety-five, & with months

four, in the times of Luitprand King of the Lombards,

who caused to be fabricated in honor of himself a notable

monument, with inscribed these verses containing.

Whose heaven penetrating soul with Angels rejoices.

He was great in dignity, family, form:

Him sent Scotia to Italian borders an old man.

Placed in Bobbio, by the Lord's love constrained;

Where venerable Columban's dogma keeping,

Vigilant, fasting, indefatigable, diligently praying,

For Olympiads four & of one year by course

So lived happily, that happy now is believed,

Mild, prudent, pious, peaceful to all brethren.

To him of age the years were nine times ten,

A lustrum also one, & months four together.

But, Father excellent, powerful intercessor be,

For most glorious Luitprand the King, who your

With precious stone the tomb adorned devout,

Thus manifest, where the kind body is covered.

Buried is here Lord Cumianus the Bishop on XIV Kal. of September. Made by John.

In the Kalendars of the same cenobium his feast is read on fifth of the Ides of June. feast 9 June,

[3] Hitherto Ughellus, before whom the Acts of the Saints

of Hibernia published John Colgan, & in them on day

XII January referred S. Cumianus the Bishop, at Bobbio

buried; confessing to himself not sufficiently known to be,

on what determined day he is venerated, or who he was from so many

different of this name Saints, whom, with added day natal,

one & twenty he numbers. in vain is sought in Hibernian fasti. Of these the first is venerated

on XII January, but he is not called Bishop. Such

two are referred, namely S. Cumianus, of Cluainfertensis

Bishop in Connacia, in year DCLXI on day

XII November dead, but in his country buried; &

S. Cumianus Bishop Ændromensis in Ulster,

who in year DCLVIII on day first July is said to have died.

But because uncertain is, nothing dares to define; especially,

because of those who in foreign regions die,

the memory often is not in Hibernian fasti inscribed.

Adds, that placed is in the Bobbiense monastery,

near the altar of S. Attala: which he had to from Bobbio immediately

to have received. Luitprand King of the Lombards, under whom

still he lived, & who his Epitaph took care, began

to reign in year DCCXII, life & reign performed in year

DCCXLIV.