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great-grandmother when she lay dead, and only removed immediately before the nailing down of the coffin.
- 40 Menaion (μηναῖον from μήν “month”) is the name of each separate book, whence the set of Offices is generally called Menaia. The first printed edition was made by Andrew and James Spinelli at Venice, 1528–1596; and reprinted, 1596–1607. The latest Greek editions were published at Venice in 1873, Orthodox rite; and at Rome in 1888, Uniate rite.
- 41 The Vow of Stability, stabilitas loci, which unites the monk for life to the particular monastery in which his vows were made, was insisted upon by S. Benedict, who thus greatly altered the pre-existing practice and put an end to the Sarabaites and Gyrovagi against whom the holy patriarch inveighes so sternly in the first chapter of the Rule.
- 42 Compendium Theologiae Moralis. Sabetti-Barrett. Editio Uiccsima Quinta. Pustet, 1916, p. 984.
- 43 sub die 26 Maii.
- 44 First edition, 1746.
- 45 Remiremont, a monastery and nunnery of the Rule of S. Benedict, was founded by SS. Romanicus and Amatus in 620. The monastery became a Priory of the Canons Regular of S. Augustine who, in 1623, bestowed upon the Benedictines of the Congregation of S. Vannes. Both houses were suppressed during the French Revolution. See Gallia Christiana, Paris, 1785, xiii, 1416; and Guinot’s Étude historique sur l’abbaye de Remiremont, Epinal, 1886.
- 46 The place of pilgrimage was Notre Dame du Trésor, one of the most famous sanctuaries of the diocese of Sainte-Dié (S. Deodatus).
- 47 He was consecrated in 1027; and enthroned as Pope, 12th February, 1049.
- 48 Apud Watterich, Pontificum Romanorum Uitae, I, Leipzig, 1862.
- 49 The Abbey of Farfa is about twenty-six miles from Rome. It is said that in the days of the Emperor Julian or of Gratian Caesar the Syrian S. Lamrentius dedicated a church to Our Lady here. Archæological discoveries in 1888 seem to show that the first monastery, devastated by the Vandals circa 457, had been built on the site of a heathen temple. The principal founder of Farfa was Thomas de Mauricume. He had spent three years as a humble palmer at Jerusalem, and whilst in prayer before the Holy Sepulchre, Our Lady appeared to him and hade him return to Italy, and there to restore Farfa. The Duke of Spoleto, Faroald, was also commanded to help in the good work. Since 1842 the Cardinal Bishop of Sabina, a suburbicarian bishop, bears also the title of Abbot of Farfa.
The body of S. Martin was venerated in his basilica at Tours. This sanctuary was famous as a place of pilgrimage until 1562, when the Protestant hordes attacked and demolished it, the shrine and the Holy Relics, the special object of their hate, being destroyed. The church was restored but again devastated under the French Revolution. Of recent years a basilica, which is unfortunately of small dimensions, has been erected and here, on 11th November, the solemnity of S. Martin is celebrated with much pomp and a great concourse of the faithful.
- 50 Lambert of Hersfeld, apud Monumenta Germaniae Historiae Scriptorum, V, 168.
- 51 960–1014.
- 52 Lib. I, pp. 26–27.
- 53 Calmet, op. cit., vol. II, c. xxx, p. 125.
- 54 Vol. I, p. 282, ed. 1920.
- 55 Op. cit., p. 295.
- 56 Apud Witthaus and Becker, Medical Jurisprudence, Vol. I, p. 446.
- 57 Romas, MDCCXC, vol. VII. pp. 51–68.
- 58 De notis et signis Sanctitatis, c. iv, 2.
- 59 De certitudine gloriae Sanctorum, in app. ad. c. iv.
- 60 The beatification of this great Servant of God is confidently awaited.
- 61 The Life of Monsignor Hugh Benson, by C. C. Martindale, S. J., London, 1916, vol. II, p. 180.
