Roman and Gallican Martyrologies.
April 25
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Abbot
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 107 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Authority: — A life by Anso, Abbot of Lobes, d. 8oo, his contemporary, at least he had known Ermine in his youth.] S. Ermine was born at Erclie, near Laon, and was ordained priest by Madalgar, bishop of Laon.
Keep their day. Remember them on April 25 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Roman and Gallican Martyrologies. Authority: — A life by Anso, Abbot of Lobes, d. 8oo, his contemporary, at least he had known Ermine in his youth.] S. Ermine was born at Erclie, near Laon, and was ordained priest by Madalgar, bishop of Laon. Shortly after, Ermine became a monk under S. Ursmar, abbot of Lobes. When that holy abbot felt himself incapacitated by his advanced age for governing the house, he substituted S. Ermine for himself. Ermine, like S. Ursmar, received consecration as a bishop, and became a regionary bishop among the neighbouring people, to whom he carried the light of the Gospel April >6.] S. Cletus.
Feast: April 25
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Ermine's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
