Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1919 — The Bishop of Verdun. [ARTICLE]

The Bishop of Verdun.

St. Vanne, or Vltonlus, died November 9, 1525. A celebrated congregation of reformed Benedictines in Lor* ralne, formed in the abbey of St. Vanne in Verdun, in 1604, took him for patron, and from the famous abbey and that of Moyen-Moustler, dedicated in honor of St. Hydulphus, bears the name of St. Vanne and St. Hydulphus. Many in France desired to accede to the reform, but on account of the wars then existing, a union was thought too difficult. A reform under the same plan was set on foot in France, under the name of the Congregation of St. Maur, and began In the abbey of St. Austin in Limoges in 1613, and confirmed by .Gregory XV, in 1627, which now comprises 185 abbeys and priories.