ST LUPICINUS OF CONDAT, ABBOT

ST LUPICINUS OF CONDAT, ABBOT - MARCH 21

SAINT LUPICINUS OF CONDAT, ABBOT

St Lupicinus was the brother of St Romanus of Condat (Condate) who had retired into the forests of mount Jura, between France and Switzerland, and fixed his abode at a place called Condate, at the conflux of the rivers Bienne and Aliere, where he found a spot of ground fit for culture, and some trees which furnished him with a kind of wild fruit. Here he spent his time in prayer, reading, and labouring for his subsistence.

LUPICINUS, HIS BROTHER, JOINED HIM

Lupicinus, his brother, came to him some time after in company with others, who were followed by several more, drawn by the fame of the virtue and miracles of these two saints.

THEY BUILT THE MONASTERY OF CONDATE

Here they built the monastery of Condate, and, their numbers increasing, that of Leuconne, two miles distant to the North; and, on a rock, a nunnery called La Beaume (now St Romain de la Roche) which no men were allowed ever to enter, and where St Romanus chose his burial place.

THE BROTHERS GOVERNED THE MONKS JOINTLY

The brothers governed the monks jointly and in great harmony, though Lupicinus was more inclined to severity of the two. He usually resided at Leuconne with one hundred and fifty monks.

ST ROMANUS' DEATH AND FEAST DAY

Romanus died about the year 460, and is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology on February 28. St Lupicinus survived him almost twenty years, and is honoured in the Roman Martyrology on March 21. He was succeeded in the abbacy of Condate by Minaucius, who, in 480, chose St Eugendus his coadjutor.

ST LUPICINUS' AUSTERITIES

Lupicinus, for his own part, used no other bed than a chair or a hard board; never touched wine, and would scarcely ever suffer a drop either of oil or milk to be poured on his pulse. In summer his subsistence for many years was only hard bread moistened in cold water, so that he could eat it with a spoon. His tunic was made of various skins of beasts sown together, with a cowl: he used wooden shoes, and wore no stockings unless when he was obliged to go out of the monastery.

(Information from Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints, 'SS. Romanus and Lupicinus, Abbots, February 28' - 📷 Choir stalls of the abbey cathedral - an engraving from 1826)

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