ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 19th of January WELCOME! SAINT 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 famo...