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ST DROCTOVAEUS, ABBOT - 10 MARCH

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH   Saints celebrated on the 10th of March WELCOME! SAINT DROCTOVAEUS, ABBOT  [Droctonius, Droctovée] King Childebert having built at Paris a famous abbey in honour of St Vincent, this saint, who was a native of the diocese of Autun, had been educated under St Germanus, abbot of St Symphorian’s at Autun, and was a person eminent for his learning and extraordinary spirit of mortification and prayer, was appointed the second, according to Duplessis, according to others, the first Abbot of this house, since called St Germain-des-Prez, in which he died about the year 580.  HIS FEAST DAY His body is kept in that abbey, and he is honoured by the church on March 10. His original life being lost, Gislemar, a Benedictine monk of this house, in the ninth age, collected from tradition and scattered memoirs that which we have in Bollandus , and more accurately in Mabillon. Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints PRAYER: May the intercession of the...