ON SAINT BLANDINUS,
IN THE TERRITORY OF GALLIC MEAUX.
CommentaryBlandinus, in the territory of Gallic Meaux (S.)
G. H.
Andreas Saussay, in the Supplement of the Gallican Martyrology, when he had treated of St. Justus or Justinus of Bigorra, subjoins these things: In the territory of Meaux of St. Blandinus, likewise a Confessor, who in the church of his name, situated in a district also named from his tutelage, rests, and is venerated with a frequent concourse of the faithful. In the register of the benefices of the diocese of Meaux is indicated a Chapel of St. Blandinus in the Deanery of Crécy; and by others it is said, that from the town of Crécy the district of St. Blandinus is distant seven Gallic leagues: others place the same between Crécy and Faremoutiers. His more ancient memory is in the Carmelite MS. preserved at Cologne, formerly described from the use of the Church of Troyes: likewise in the MS. Florary and Martyrology printed at Cologne and Lübeck in the year 1490: in Greven also, Canisius, and Ferrarius everywhere with these words: In the district, or territory of Meaux of St. Blandinus the Confessor. In the Breviary of Meaux printed in the year 1640 is prescribed a Commemoration of St. Blandinus the Confessor on the following day May 11, and all things of the Common of a Confessor not Pontiff are recited. Thus far concerning this Saint we have been able to know nothing else: nor did the Great Vicar of the church of Meaux Lord C. Pastel, after a diligent inquiry made in the place itself at the instance of our Paris brethren, find anything whereby this Saint could be rendered more known.