Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman, Gallican, and Belgian Martyrologies. Authority: — A Life by an anonymous writer, when written is uncertain; it contains several chronological errors, and is therefore probably late.] S. Amatus, vulgarly called S. Aime, belonged to a rich and pious family. He was elected Archbishop of Sens, and governed his diocese with great prudence till he was banished on a false accusation by Thierry III. to Peronne, the monastery of S. Fursy. Fie was received with open arms by the abbot Ultan, and Amatus remained with him till the death of Ultan, when King Thierry sent him to S. MauronS. A mat us.

…tius, son of S. Rictrudis, with orders that he should be placed in a monastery at Flanders. One day, says the legend, Amatus took off his habit in church, and flung it across a sunbeam, and there it hung suspended.

The same story is told of S. Goar, and many other saints. Maurontius had erected a monastery at Breuil, and he committed it to the charge of S. Amatus. After his death, in a.d. 690, it was found that the exiled bishop had wound an iron chain round his body, causing himself great distress and inconvenience.

King Thierry, hearing of the miracles wrought at his tomb, came there humbly, and offered gifts in atonement for his ill-treatment of the saint