Baring-Gould’s sources: Venerated in Brittany, and especially at Quimper. There was another S. Ronan, first abbot of Drumshallon, in Ireland, who died of the great plague in the year 665. Another S. Ronan was brother of S. Carnech, who died in 530. Another S. Ronan was a monk, who having learned abroad the right time for celebrating Easter, endeavoured to force S. Finan, the successor of S. Aidan in the see of Lindisfame, to give up the Keltic rite for the Roman one. Ronan, says Bede III., c. a 8, " nequaquam Finanum e men dare potuit; quia potius, quod esset homo ferocis animi, acerbiorem castigando et apertum veritatis adversarium reddidit." It is not easy at first sight to determine whether by the " man of ferocious or rough mind" Bede meant Finan or Ronan; but the phrase “castigando," used by him to denote Ronan’s mode of arguing, a mode very unbecoming towards a bishop, inclines one to think that he alluded to Ronan, who appears to have been a bitter (acerrimus) disputant. Colgan says that this S. Ronan was venerated in Brittany, and he has printed the Acts of the Brittany saint on Jan. 8th, the day on which the Ronan mentioned by Bede is venerated. But he made a mistake, the two saints are quite distinct Authority: —The life of S. Ronan in the Quimper Breviary. In France S. Ronan is called S, Renan.] S. Ronan, an Irish bishop, left his native island at the end of the 5 th century, and came to Leon in Brittany, where he retired into a hermitage in the forest of Nevet He received Grallo, king of Brittany, in his little cell on many occasions, as the king loved to spend long hours with him, hearing him speak and asking him questions. The story told in the Quimper Breviary is that the wife of the king, whose name was Queban, one day put her little daughter, aged five, in a box with bread and milk, whilst I she devoted her time to more agreeable pursuits than | looking after the children. But the little girl got a crust j down her throat and choked. The queen, in a great | fright, shut up the box and rushed screaming about in 1 quest of her child, who, she pretended, had strayed. She found her way to the hermits1 cell, where her husband was conversing on theology with the Irish saint The woman at once began to storm at the hermit for detaining the king so long from home. “ But for you !” exclaimed she, with truly feminine rapidity of arriving at a conclusion, “my daughter would not have been lost.”

“Fie, bold woman,” said S. Ronan; “tell no more falsehoods, the child is in a box with a bowl of milk and some bread at home.” And he rose up, and followed by the king and the queen, sought the palace, where he found the damsel, in the box, as he had said. Then Queban was stoned with stones till she died, and Ronan, casting himself on his knees, restored the dead girl to life.