on the holy Confessors: to whose petition holy he assented, and of his property a gift, for of his most venerable spouse the merit, possessions he gives. on the blessed Confessors bestowed he: and through his authority's precept there things with all integrity certain in benefice to have, and perpetually to be had and held confirmed. There was moreover the same magnificent King Charles about places to divine worship given over most devout, so that no of his predecessors, of the Emperors namely and parents or Kings there was, who with so great of his munificences' things by adorning to churches conferred: wherefore the villa which is called Veteres-domus
the Prince, with the son of the aforesaid most noble King, Louis h by name: and there Hilispogius, counsel with the Franks' most noble having taken, to Louis the King's son of Neustria i the kingdom gave, and in this kingdom's part him to reign constituted. And in the same agreement King Charles, for of his most noble spouse Ermentrudis's devotion, to the Blessed Confessors, just as to other Saints' places, of his own bestowed, to the servants of God and handmaids' stipends, whence the Lord granting with other whatever things, which there other God fearing conferred, might live of the same church's Brothers. But the greatest of Queens Ermentrudis not only to this to be done the King provoked, but also a pall to the Blessed Confessors' bodies sent, saying: From the things obtained, of my sins pardon and life eternal to obtain may I merit, and the pall sent the unwearying of my pain not to feel presently I seek; which thus of her faith we have found to have been confessed: because these things also in the first of the glorious King Louis the year namely the son of the great King Charles and of Ermentrudis his most noble spouse, and the glorious Queen, for the love of God the Father Almighty and the blessed Confessors Regnobertus the Pontiff, and his companion Zeno's veneration conferred: granting our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom honor and glory in the ages of ages, Amen.
ANNOTATA.
c. Here again the interpolator the sense had disturbed, digressing to the eternal of the sacrilegious damnation to be inculcated. There followed then in the MS. of Belfortius the cure of Melisendis, but according to the MSS. of Vergy and of Auxerre Hervaeus's wife she was, not of this sacrilegious one.
of Nomengius the Briton, war waged for his father: and to this in the year 862 dead succeeding, slain was he in the year 866, as in the Annals of Metz is read: he came moreover to Charles in the year 863, and to him yielded the places, which he held in the County of Anjou, as writes Argentré bk. 2 ch. 22.
APPENDIX.
On the Relics of St. Ragnobertus translated into Burgundy.
Regnobertus the Bishop, of Bayeux in Normandy (S.)
Zeno the Deacon, of Bayeux in Normandy (S.)
BY THE AUTHOR G. H.
Illustrious in the Besançon of Burgundy Archbishopric is the monastery of Baume, by St. Euticius the Abbot, whose Acts we gave January 13, in the IX century founded. From this monastery depends the Priory of St. Ragnobertus, near Quingey a town, so called because the body of St. Ragnobertus thither brought, hitherto upon the altar in a stone chest is kept. The day to this translation sacred is October 24, and inscribed in the ancient Breviary MS. of Besançon, and another in the year 1590 printed, but in this are prescribed all things from the Common of a Confessor and Pontiff. But in the monastery of Baume and the Priory of St. Ragnobertus are lessons proper, The Priory of St. Ragnobertus of which the last about this translation of this kind: Some afterward some years being elapsed, when the Normans through those regions to rage continued, of the holy Bodies the keepers and bearers into Burgundy a refuge had, in it the cult and Relics and of B. Regnobertus of the sacred bones a part signal into the Besançon diocese brought, to a religious near Quingey little monastery, to the Baume Abbey from ancient times belonging, a name gave: where the holy Bishop, not human only to be healed souls and bodies, but also to be driven away of cattle the diseases himself most benign shows. as in other places of Burgundy. Celebrated is also St. Regnobertus's memory both in the Vergy St. Viventius monastery, both also in the town Varzy of the Episcopate of Auxerre: which into churches distributed, and perhaps with Zeno the Archdeacon's relics mingled, of Regnobertus the Bishop the bones in veneration are. Thus there. He is venerated moreover at Vergy March 26 and August 12: but at Varzy August 21. Ferrarius in the Catalogue general St. Ragnobertus thought to have been Bishop of Besançon, because in that diocese he is venerated. About St. Viventius translation into Burgundy in the year 886, not 868, made we treated January 13, translated about the year 886. at which also time these St. Ragnobertus's relics into Burgundy to have been translated we think. In the Cathedral Church of Bayeux a Chasuble sacred, which he used in the most holy Mass's sacrifice, with the highest veneration is kept, and sometimes in public supplications for occurring necessities not without benefits from heaven given is carried about, His Chasuble at Bayeux. as to us an eyewitness James de Machault of our Society a Priest wrote from Paris, adding in our little chapel some sacred relics of him to be kept. St. Zeno's day at Bayeux or elsewhere proper nowhere have I found: wherefore to his master in the title we have joined him with whom common he had both of life the time, and of cult and of translation the manner.