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MAGLOIRE

Volume 10 · 139 words · 1797 Edition

(St.), a native of Wales in Great Britain, and confin-german to St Sampson and St Malo. He embraced a monastic life, and went into France, where he was made abbot of Dol, and after that a provincial bishop in Brittany. He afterwards founded a monastery in the island of Jersey, where he died on the 14th of October 574, about the age of 80. His remains were transported to the suburbs of St Jacques, and deposited in a monastery of Benedictines, which was ceded to the fathers of the oratory in 1628. It is now the seminary of St Magloire, celebrated on account of the learned men whom it has produced. This saint cultivated poetry with considerable success: the hymn which is sung at the feast of All Saints was composed by him; Celo quos eadem gloria confecrat, &c.