Rev. Alban Butler (171173). Volume I: January. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866. St. Lomer, or Laudomarus, Abbot IN his childhood
he kept his fathers sheep, in which employment he macerated his
body by regular fasts, and spent his time in studies and prayer,
under the direction of a certain holy priest. Being afterwards,
by compulsion, ordained priest, he was made canon and cellerer,
(some moderns say provost,) of the church of Chartres. After
some years he retired into a neighbouring forest. Mabillon
thinks at the place where now stands Bellomer, a monastery of
the order of Fontevrald. Many disciples being assembled near his
hermitage, he removed with them into another desert, where he
built the monastery of Corbion, (at present a priory called
Moutier-au-Perche, six leagues from Chartres,) about the year
575. A wonderful spirit of prayer, and gift of miracles,
rendered his name famous. He died on the 19th of January, in
593, at Chartres, in the house of the bishop, who had called him
thither some time before.