Rigomeres

ON SAINT RIGOMERES,

BISHOP OF MEAUX IN GAUL.

From the Breviary, Saussay, and others.

5TH CENTURY.

St. Rigomeres, Bishop of Meaux in Gaul.

BY G. H.

The Breviary of Meaux, by the authority of Dominicus Seguier Bishop of Meaux and with the consent of the Chapter of the same Church, printed in the year MDCXL, proposes on this XXVIII day of May to be celebrated the feast of St. Rigomeres Bishop of Meaux, Sacred cult on May 28. under a semidouble rite, and prescribes the Lections from the Common of a Confessor Pontiff, with this proper Prayer. Be propitious, we beseech, O Lord, to us Thy servants, Relics, through the glorious merits of St. Rigomeres, Thy Confessor and Pontiff, whose Relics rest in the Church of Meaux, that by his pious intercession we may always be protected from all adversities. Saussay composed this encomium of him: On the same day at Meaux, of St. Rigomeres, likewise Bishop and Confessor, shining forth with piety, clemency, and mercy, who after Principius governing that Church, the Episcopate being excellently administered according to the will of God, rested with a holy end. These things there. A little Abbey. The memory of the same is celebrated in the Manuscript Florarium of the Saints, and likewise in the Martyrology of Cologne and Lübeck printed in the year MCCCCXC, and in the Additions of Greven to Usuard printed in the years MDXV and MDXXI, everywhere in these words: In the city of Meaux, of Bl. Rigomeres, Bishop and Confessor. There was once in the same diocese a little Abbey of St. Rigomeres, Bishop and Confessor, and it is reckoned among the Churches which in the year MIV St. Gilbert Bishop of Meaux attributed to his Canons, whose Acts we gave on February XIII. St. Rigomerus was also the tenth Bishop of that city, and flourished in the fifth century of Christ. The rest remained in obscurity, because neither his Life, nor his Miracles seem ever to have been delivered to writing. D. Claudius Castellanus relates that, in the outermost boundary of the suburb of Meaux, even today there is found under the name of St. Rigomeres a church, commonly called Saint Rogomer: whether which be the remnant of the little Abbey mentioned above is uncertain to us.