The Lives of the Saints Volume 1 - St. Patrick's Basilica

They were printed at Paris in Latin and French, in 1704. Baillet
published a new translation of them in 1707. In them we admire the
beauty and fruitfulness of the author's genius, and still much more the
great sentiments of virtue which they contain, especially concerning
temptations, vain-glory, ambition, the sweetness of God's service, and
his holy commandments; the obligation without bounds which all men have
of loving God, the incomprehensible advantages of praising him, the
necessity of continually advancing in fervor, and of continually
gathering, by the practice of good works, new flowers, of which the
garland of our lives ought to be composed. This useful collection might
doubtless have been made much more ample by his disciples. Several other
holy maxims and short lessons delivered by him, occur in the most
ancient of his lives, entitled, Stephani Dicta et Facta, compiled by the
care of St. Stephen de Liciaco. (Martenne, t. 6, p. 1046.)
Footnotes:
1. William of Dandina, an accurate writer, in the life of Hugh of
Lacerta, the most famous among the first disciples of St. Stephen,
published by Martenne, (t. 6, p. 1143,) says, that the saint died in
the forty-sixth year after his conversion. His retreat, therefore,
cannot be dated before the year 1076, and the foundation of his
order, which some place in 1076, must have been posterior to this.
Gerard Ithier mistakes when he says that St. Stephen went to
Benevento in the twelfth year of his age; and remained there twelve
years. He went only then to Paris to Milo, who was bishop only two
years. See Martenne, p. 1053.
ST. PAUL, BISHOP OF VERDUN, C.
HAVING lived in the world a perfect pattern of perfection by alms,
fasts, assiduous prayer, meekness, and charity, he retired among the
hermits of {385} Mount Voge, near Triers, on a hill called from him
Paulberg. King Dagobert placed him in the episcopal chair of Verdun, and
was his protector in his zealous labors and ample foundations of that
church. The saint died in 631. See his authentic anonymous life in
Henschenius. Also Calmet, Hist. de Lorraine, t. 1, l. 9, n. 41, p. 402.
Bollandus, Feb. t. 2, p. 169.
ST. CUTHMAN, C.
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THE spiritual riches of divine grace were the happy portion of this
saint, who seemed from his cradle formed to perfect virtue. His name
demonstrates him to have been an English-Saxon, not of British
extraction, either from Wales or Cornwall, as Bollandus conjectured. He
was born in the southern parts of England, and, from the example of his
pious parents, inherited the most perfect spirit of Christian piety.