Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. Authority: — The Lessons in the Sens Breviary.] The story of S. Baldus, called in France S. Bond, is a [.ingering reminiscence among the Franks of a myth akin to { the Tannhaiiser of German tradition. 1 The story goes that he was a Spaniard, who had murdered by mistake his father and mother. Weighed down with horror at his crime, and finding no rest, he rambled to Jerusalem, and to Rome, and finally to Sens, where he confessed j to the bishop, S. Artemius, all his sin, and asked if any hope ( of pardon could be given him. u Only when this dry staff I j hold in my hand shall bear leaves and flowers,'1 answered the ! bishop. “ Go plant it and water it daily." j Baldus did as he was bidden; and lo ! after a while the j dry staff put forth buds and blossomed, and he knew that he was forgiven. The Bonhomme de Fatonville is another J legend bearing a resemblance in one particular to that of [ Saint Bond, told of a pear tree at Fatonville near Havre. 1 It is the staff of an old pilot who used to point out a ford, which staff put forth leaves, flowers, and fruit.1 In Germany there are many versions of the story. Tannhauser is the most famous. A knight wandered into the Horselberg in Thuringia, where Venus held her court, and spent there seven years of revelry and debauch. He returned to earth, and went to Rome. Urban IV. told him he could not hope for absolution for his sin till his staff put forth buds and flowers. It did so, and Tannhaiiser was forgiven.2 1 Migne, “ Diet, des Superstitions," col. 140. S. Colman Mac Duach.