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.