lt at
Placs, the place of his nativity, according to Dom Morice, in 490. He
was buried at Rennes, where his feast is kept on the 6th of November. In
the Roman Martyrology he is commemorated on the 6th of January. St.
Gregory, of Tours, mentions a stately church erected over his tomb.
Solomon, sovereign prince of Brittany, in 840, founded a monastery under
his invocation, which still subsists in the suburbs of Rennes, of the
Benedictin order. See the anonymous ancient life of St. Melanius in
Bollandus; also St. Greg. Tour. l. de glor. Conf. c. 55. Argentre, Hist.
de Bretagne. Lobineau, Vies des Saints de Bretagne, p.32 Morice, Hist.
de Bretagne, note 28, p. 932.

SAINT NILAMMON, A HERMIT,

NEAR PELUSIUM, IN EGYPT,

WHO being chosen bishop of Geres, and finding the patriarch Theophilus
deaf to his tears and excuses, prayed that God would rather take him out
of the world than permit him to be consecrated bishop of the place, for
which he was intended. His prayer was heard, for he died before he had
finished it.[1] His name occurs in the modern Roman Martyrology on this
day. See Sozomen, Hist. l. 8, c. 19.

Footnotes:
1. A like example is recorded in the life of brother Columban,
published in Italian and French, in 1755, and abridged in the
Relation de la Mort do quelques religieux de la Trappe, T. 4. p.
334, 342. The life of this holy man from his childhood at Abbeville,
the place of his birth, and afterwards at Marseilles, was a model of
innocence, alms-deeds, and devotion. In 1710 he took the Cistercian
habit, according to the reformation of la Trappe, at Buon Solazzo in
Tuscany, the only filiation of that Institute. In this most rigorous
penitential institute his whole comportment inspired with humility
and devotion all who beheld him. He bore a holy envy to those whom
he ever saw rebuked by the Abbot, and his compunction, charity,
wonderful humility, and spirit of prayer, had long been the
admiration of that fervent house, when he was ordered to prepare
himself to receive holy orders, a thing not usually done in that
penitential institute. The abbot had herein a private view of
advancing him to the coadjutorship in the abbacy for the easing of
his own shoulders in bearing the burden of the government of the
house. Columban, who, to all the orders of his superior, had never
before made any reply, on this occasion made use of the strongest