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

CALLED BY VENERABLE BEDE, LUIDHARD.
BEDE, William of Malmesbury, and other historians relate, that when
Bertha, daughter of Charibert, king of the French, was married to
Ethelbert, king of Kent, about the year 566, this holy French prelate
accompanied her into England, and resided at Canterbury in quality of
almoner and chaplain to the queen. Though his name does not occur in the
imperfect catalogue of the bishops of Senlis, which is found in the
ancient copy of St. Gregory's sacramentary, which belonged to that
church in 880, nor in the old edition of Gallia Christiana yet, upon the
authority of the English historians, {459} is inserted in the new
edition, the thirteenth, from St. Regulus, the founder of that see, one
of the Roman missionaries in Gaul about the time of St. Dionysius. The
relics of St. Regulus are venerated in the ancient collegiate church
which bears his name in Senlis, and his principal festival is kept on
the 23d of April. St. Lethard having resigned this see to St. Sanctinus,
was only recorded in England. On the high altar of St. Augustine's
monastery at Canterbury, originally called SS. Peter and Paul's, his
relics were exposed in a shrine near those of the holy king Ethelbert,
as appears from the Monasticon. St. Lethard died at Canterbury about the
year 596. Several miracles are recorded to have been obtained by his
intercession, particularly a ready supply of rain in time of drought.
See Bede, l. 1, c. 25. Will. of Malmesbury, de Pontif. l. 1. Monas.
Angl. t. 1, p. 24. Tho. Sprot, in his History of the Abbey of
Canterbury, Thorn, Henschenius ad 24 Feb., Gallia Christ. Nova, t. 10,
p. 1382.
B. ROBERT OF ARBRISSEL,
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SO CALLED FROM THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH.
HE was archpriest and grand vicar of the diocese of Rennes, and
chancellor to the duke of Brittany; but divested himself of these
employments, and led a most austere eremitical life, in the forest of
Craon, in Anjou. He soon filled that desert with anchorets, and built in
it a monastery of regular canons. This is the abbey called De la Roe, in
Latin De Rotâ, which was founded, according to Duchesne, in 1093, and
confirmed by pope Urban II., in 1096. This pope having heard him preach
at Angers, gave him the powers of an apostolical missionary. The blessed
man therefore preached in many places, and formed many disciples. In
1099 he founded the great monastery of Fontevraud, Fons Ebraldi, a
league from the Loire, in Poitou. He appointed superioress Herlande of
Champagne, a near kinswoman to the duke of Brittany; and Petronilla of
Craon, baroness of Chemillé, coadjutress. He settled it under the rule
of St. Benedict, with perpetual abstinence from flesh, even in all
sicknesses, and put his order under the special patronage of the blessed