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

ST. GALMIER, IN LATIN, BALDOMERUS.
HE was a locksmith in Lyons, who lived in great poverty and austerity,
and spent all his leisure moments in holy reading and prayer. He gave
his gains to the poor, and sometimes even his tools. He repeated to
every one: "In the name of the Lord let us always give thanks to God."
Vivencius, abbot of St. Justus, (afterwards archbishop of Lyons,)
admired his devotion in the church, but was more edified and astonished
when he had conversed with him. He gave him a cell in his monastery, in
which the servant of God sanctified himself still more and more by all
the exercises of holy solitude, and by his penitential labor. He died a
subdeacon about the year 650. His relics were very famous for miracles,
and a celebrated pilgrimage, till they were scattered in the air by the
Huguenots, in the sixteenth century. The Roman Martyrology names him on
the day of his death, the 27th of February.
ST. NESTOR, B.M.
EPOLIUS, whom the emperor Decius had appointed governor of Lycia,
Pamphylia, and Phrygia, sought to make his court to that prince by
surpassing his colleagues in the rage and cruelty with which he
persecuted the meek disciples of Christ. At that time Nestor, bishop of
Sida in Pamphylia, (as Le Quien demonstrates, not of Perge, or of
Mandis, or Madigis, as some by mistake affirm,) was distinguished in
those parts for his zeal in propagating the faith, and for the sanctity
of his life. His reputation reached the governor, who sent an Irenarch
to apprehend him. The martyr was conducted to Perge, and there
crucified, in imitation of the Redeemer of the world, whom he preached.
His triumph happened in 250. His Latin Acts, given by the Bollandists,
are to be corrected by those in Greek, found among the manuscript acts
of Saints, honored by the Greeks in the month of February in the king's
library at Paris, Cod. 1010, written in the tenth century.
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ST. ALNOTH, ANCHORET, M.
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WEDON, in Northamptonshire, was honored with a palace of Wulphere, king
of Mercia, in the middle of England, and was bestowed by that prince
upon his daughter St. Wereburge, who converted it into a monastery.
Alnoth was the bailiff of St. Wereburge in that country, and the perfect
imitator of her heroic virtues. After her retreat he led an anchoretical
life in that neighborhood, and was murdered by robbers in his solitude.
His relics were kept with veneration in the church of the village of
Stow, near Wedon. Wilson places his festival on the 27th of February, in
the first edition of his English Martyrology, and in the second on the