Skip to main content

SAINT HERMELAND, ABBOT

 

SAINT HERMELAND, ABBOT

Saint Hermeland (Ermenlandus, Erblon, Arbland, Erblain, Herband, Herbland, Erbland, Herlein) came from a respected and wealthy family of Noyon (Noviomum, Noviomagum). After an education appropriate to his status, he came to the court of King Chlotar III as a cupbearer.

In A.D. 673 he became a monk at Fontenelle under Abbot Landbertus. Soon afterwards Bishop Audoënus of Rouen ordained him a priest.

From Fontenelle he moved to Nantes with twelve confreres, where Bishop Pascharius entrusted to Hermeland's leadership the newly founded monastery of Aindre (Antrum). The official inauguration in honour of St Martin took place in A.D. 682.

The monastery was completely destroyed in the 9th century - not by a flood, as some writers say -   but rather by the Normans, according to the Bollandists*.

Here lived St Hermeland in extreme penitence and humility, so that God himself glorified him by miracles. On one occasion, a large, precious fish lay wriggling at his feet. The blessing of the saint made it possible for all the monks to eat a full meal of it. He also possessed the gift of discernment and a profound knowledge of the human heart.

Towards the end of his life he transferred his monastery responsibilities to his successor and henceforth stayed at the Chapel of St Leodegar, praying and contemplating. He reached a very old age and, after announcing the date of his death to the brothers and after having received the last Sacraments, he passed to a better life at the beginning of the 8th century.

His name is also inserted in the Roman Martyrology. The Bollandists* place the year of his death between A.D. 715-720. They list him on March 25.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Hermeland 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.

⬅️ More information about Saint Hermeland

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

WELCOME

  Please pick your saints: January - Saints by date  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17   18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31   February - Saints by date  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17 18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29 ...
Post a Comment
Read more

JACQUES HAMEL, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 26 JULY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 26th of July WELCOME! SERVANT OF GOD JACQUES HAMEL, PRIEST AND MARTYR "Jacques Hamel (30 November 1930 - 26 July 2016) was a French Catholic priest who served in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. On July 26, 2016, Hamel was murdered during the 2016 Normandy church attack by two Muslim men pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant while he celebrated Mass in his church." (From Wikipedia) Father Hamel, 85, still officiated regularly as auxiliary at the church in St Étienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, Normandy, France, and in neighbouring Elbeuf, local media reported, stepping in when the parish’s regular priest, Father Auguste Moanda-Phuati, was busy. Father Hamel  was killed by two men armed with knives during Weekday Mass. They who took five people, Fr Hamel, two nuns and two other worshippers, hostage in the church. The two men were later shot by police. Three hostages were freed unharmed but one was in a cri...
Post a Comment
Read more

BL. LUKE KIRBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 30 MAY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED LUKE KIRBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR 16th century houses, painted by Auguste Mayer He was born in the bishopric of Durham, according to Raissius ; others say at Richmond, in Yorkshire. He was master of arts in one of our universities; but going abroad to Douay, in Flanders, was received into the English college there, 1576, and made priest in 1577; and the year following sent upon the mission. Where he had not been long before he again went abroad, and travelled to Rome, partly for devotion, and partly for further improvement in learning. Here he remained in the English college till 1580, when he returned into England, and was not long after apprehended: for I find by a printed diary of things transacted in the Tower of London from 1580 till 1585, that on the 5th of December, 1580, Luke Kirby, Thomas Cottam , and other priests, were brought to the Tower from other prisons; and that these two, on the 10th...
Post a Comment
Read more