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following he renounced his estates, which his eldest daughter
brought in marriage to Louis the Young, king of France; and clothed
with hair-cloth next his skin, end in a tattered garment expressive
of the sincerity of his repentance and contrition, undertook a
pilgrimage to Compostella, and died in that journey, in 1137. See
Ordericus Vitalis, Hist. Norman. et Armoldus Bonæ-Vallis, in vita
Bernardi; with the Historical Dissert. of Henschenius on the 10th of
February; and Abrégé Chronol. des Grands Fiefs, p. 223.
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SAINT ERLULPH, BISHOP AND MARTYR.
SEVERAL Scottish missionaries passed into the northwestern parts of
Germany, to sow there the seeds of the faith, at the time when
Charlemagne subdued the Saxons. In imitation of these apostolic men, St.
Erlulph, a holy Scotchman, went thither, and after employing many years
with great success in that arduous mission, was chosen the tenth bishop
of Verdun. His zeal in propagating the faith enraged the barbarous
infidels, and he was slain by them at a place called Eppokstorp, in 830.
See Krantzius, l. 3. Metrop. c. 30. Democh. Gatal. episc. Verd.
Pantaleon, &c.[1]
Footnotes:
1. This saint must not be confounded with Ernulph, a most holy man, the
apostle of Iceland, who flourished in the year 890; on whom see
Jonas, Histor. Islandiæ.
FEBRUARY XI.
SS. SATURNINUS, DATIVUS,
AND MANY OTHER MARTYRS, OF AFRICA.
From their contemporary acts, received as authentic by St. Austin,
Brevic. Coll. die 3, c. 17. The Donatists added a preface to them and a
few glosses, in which condition they are published by Baluzius, t. 2.
But Bollandus and Ruinart give them genuine.
A.D. 304
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THE emperor Dioclesian had commanded all Christians, under pain of
death, to deliver up the holy scriptures to be burnt. This persecution
had raged a whole year in Africa; some had betrayed the cause of
religion, but many more had defended it with their blood, when these