KING CHILDEBERT having built at Paris a famous abbey in honor of St.
Vincent; this saint, who was a native of the diocese of Autun, had been
educated under St. Germanus, abbot of St. Symphorian's at Autun, and was
a person eminent for his learning and extraordinary spirit of
mortification and prayer, was appointed the second, according to
Duplessis, according to others, the first abbot of this house, since
called St. Germain-des-Prez, in which he died about the year 580. His
body is kept in that abbey, and he is honored by the church on the 10th
of March. His original life being lost, Gislemar, a Benedictin monk of
this house, in the ninth age, collected from tradition and scattered
memoirs that which we have in Bollandus and more accurately in Mabillon.
Footnotes:
1. Duplessis' Annales de Paris, pp. 60, 68.
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