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ST BAIN, BISHOP OF THEROUANNE - 20 JUNE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 20th of June WELCOME! SAINT BAIN, BISHOP OF THEROUANNE  (Now St Omer, and Abbot of St Vandrille’s.) Saint Bain [Bagne] was fifth bishop of that see, to which he was promoted before the middle of the seventh century.  Merville, where St Mauront had built his monastery of Breuil, being in the diocese of Terouanne, St Bain translated thence the body of St Amatus, to the church which St Maurout had lately built at Douay. When SS. Luglius and Luglianus, two Irish hermits, had been murdered by highwaymen in his diocese, Bain buried them with great honour in the chapel of his castle at Lilleres, where they are honoured as patrons of the town on October 23.  SOLITUDE Solitude, “which nourishes prayer as a mother does her child,” as St John Damascene says, being always the ruling inclination of our saint, he resigned his bishopric, and retiring to the abbey of Fontenelle or St Vandrille’s, in Normandy, put on the monast...