HE was a native of the diocese of Langres, and took the monastic habit
at Lerins. He was called into his own country by the bishop of Langres
to found the abbey from which he received his surname. He settled it
under the rule of St. Macarius, governed it many years with great
reputation of sanctity, and was rendered famous by miracles. He went to
God about the year 540, being almost one hundred and twenty years old,
and was one of the holy institutors of the monastic state in France. St.
Gregory of Tours gives an account of him in the eighty-seventh chapter
of his book, On the Glory of Confessors. His life was also compiled by
Jonas, the disciple of Columban, extant in Bollandus. See P. Rover,
Hist. Monast. S. Joan. Reom. Paris, 1637.
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