ST LOMER, ABBOT - 19 JANUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY

Saints celebrated on the 19th of January

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

ST 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. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)