ST LOMER, ABBOT - 19 JANUARY

SAINT LOMER, ABBOT

Saint Lomer (or Laudomarus) in his childhood kept his father’s sheep, in which employment he macerated his body by regular fasts, and spent his time in studies and prayer, under the direction of a certain holy priest.

Being afterwards, by compulsion, ordained priest, he was made canon and cellerer, (some moderns say provost,) of the church of Chartres.

THE MONASTERY OF CORBION

After some years he retired into a neighbouring forest. Mabillon thinks at the place where now stands Bellomer, a monastery of the order of Fontevrald. Many disciples being assembled near his hermitage, he removed with them into another desert, where he built the monastery of Corbion, (at present a priory called Moutier-au-Perche, six leagues from Chartres,) about the year 575.

A WONDERFUL SPIRIT OF PRAYER

A wonderful spirit of prayer, and gift of miracles, rendered his name famous. He died on January 19, 593, at Chartres, in the house of the bishop, who had called him thither some time before.

HIS RELICS

In the incursions of the Normans, his remains were removed from place to place, till they were lodged at Perly, in Auvergne. His head is now kept in the priory of Maissac, called St Laumer’s, in Auvergne; the rest of his relics were removed to Blois, where an abbey was built which bears his name.

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Lomer may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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