Baring-Gould’s sources: Bohemian Kalendar. Authority: — A life by Ralbintis, founded on the Lections of the Prague Breviary ] Borzivoi, duke of Bohemia, was hunting in the forest one day, when he started a doe, which the dogs pursued. The duke galloped after them, and the dogs brought the doe down near a rock and fountain, in the deepest solitude of the forest He leaped from his horse and speared the doe. To his surprise he saw an old man approach with long snowy beard, in a threadbare garb His attendants entreated the duke to withdraw, as this was a wood-spirit, but Borzivoi called to the old man, and asked his name. “ I am called Ivan, and I come from Dalmatia,” said the apparition; “ I have served God in solitude for forty-two years.”

“ And where dost thou live?” “In a narrow cave.” " And what is thy food ?” “ That deer thou hast killed fed me with her milk.” Borzivoi was filled with regret and he urged the old man to mount his horse and come to the castle. The hermit reluctantly complied. In the Lives oj the Saints.

[June a*. palace of the duke all was strange to him, — the bustle, the splendour, the delicate meats. He was weary of it all, almost as soon as he was there, and in the night he fled away to seek out his dear woodland solitudes. But some rustics, thinking him a wild man, pelted him with stones, and cut open his head; then he crawled under the shade of the green trees, and lay down, faint and weary. And presently the chaplain of Ludmila, the duke’s saintly wife, came in quest of him, and found the old man dying. So he ministered to him the last sacraments, and buried him under the oak leaves.