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 eantuiy fay St. Bcmontus. This taint lived there &t fint the luo of a hermit, but foilowera booh Kfttbered around him. They came from all parts of Itoimui Qaul aod even from Brittany. During the fifth, eixtli, and seventh centuries, the influence exerted by the abbey was considerable. The presence of the Saracens in Provence made the monastic life impossible or pre- carious for two centuries. The abbey was restored in the eleventh century, and a new era of prospenty began. It was pven many estates and churches in the neighbouring Dioceaea of Antibes, Aix, Aries, Fr£- juB, Digne, Senei, Vence, Nice, Ventimi^lia, etc. The popes, the eounta of Provence, and the kings of France bestowed on it man^ privileges. The monks were «bliged durins the Middle Ages to take an active part in defending the coasts against incursions of the floors of Algeria. A monumental tower, built as a place of rsfuge, is still standing. The abbev was ao important strst^c position in the sixteenth and seventeenth oentunes during the Franco-Spanish wars. The eom- wendam, was introduced at L^rins in I4&4. There was a eryiiu need for reform. The monks were placed under the Italian Congregation of St. Justina of Padua (1515), which brought about for the monastery a long era of prosperity, both spiritual aod matorial. The niboequent union with the French Congregation of fit. Ifaur (1637) was of brief duration. A century later the monks were obliged to leave the Italian congrega- tifn to become a part of Clun^. The decline Imd al- leody commenced; it steadily mcreased until the time

During the first period of its history', Urinsgave to the Church celebrated bishops and writers. iTirough them the abbey plaved an important rule. Such were 8t HonoratUB, his successor St. Hilary, and St. C^ MiiuB, Ajvhbishops of Aries; St. Maximus and FauB- tUB, Btsbops of Riez; St. Euchcrius, Di»hop of Lyons; Bt. Lupus, Bishop of Troyes; St. Valerianus, Bishop of Cimiei; 9t. Salvianus, Bishop of Ucneva; St. Vera-

Mteiy has given rise to the belief that i logical school, which, however, it was not. Urinshad areputation for learning, but it had no organized teach- ing body. The part given to the monks of L^rins in the editing ol certain legends h}( M. Dufourcq is ■Irongly contested. We find no writer of note from theaeventh to the thirteenth century; after that came the troubadour Raymond Ffraud; then Giovanni Andres GrwmoCortese, who died in li>48f Dionysius f^tueher, who died in 1562; the historian of the abbey, Vincent Banalis, who died at the beginning of the ■eventeenth century.

1004): BaMUUS. C&ronoloein Hncforum . . . abhatnn (ocrtf innfi* Lerxntiui* (LyoDi, IS13); Gocx. Ltnnt ou eaunatn* liidt (Piiia, ISM); LiHABnoc, Dt SchOa Lerintnti (Paris,

Leros, titular sec of the Cvclades. sufTragan of Rhodes. According to Strabo (XIV, i. 6), this island mu$t have been a colony of Miletus; it next became independent Itefore falling under the Roman domi- nation. According to the poet Phocylides, the inhab- itant,") of Leros had, without exception, an evil reputa- tion (Stralx>, X, v, 12). It was here that Aristagoras, the leader of the Ionian revolt against the Persians (499 B. c). was advised to hide from the vengeance of Darius. The island pos%s!<cd a famous sanctuary of Artemis the Virgin, on the site of which the present convent of Parthcnia and the Bd|oining church are supposed to be built. Lequien (Onens Christianua, I, 945) mentions four of its uishops: John, in 553; Scr- gius, in 787; Joseph, in869;CaJlistus, in the sixteenth century. The list could lie completed, for Leros has never ceased to be an episcopal s le, and there is still a metropolitan of Leros and the neigliliouring island Calj-mnos, dependent upon the Greek I'atriarchate of Constantinople. Kubcl (" Hierarcliia eatholica mcdii svi", MQnster, I. 315) also mentions two Latin bish- ops of the fourteenth century. A pos-seasion ot the Knights of Rhodes, the island sustained a siege in 1505, and was taken by the Turks in 1523; it was recovered by the Venetians, who razed its fortificntions, in 1648; and it once more fell into the possession of the Os- manli. IjCros now forms a caza of the sanjak of Chio, in the vilayet of Rhodes. The Lsland ia alwut nine and a (juarter miles long by seven ond a half wide. It is barren, mountainous, anil rich only in marble quarries; and has about eight thousand inHabitants, all tireoks. The Catholic inhabitants arc under the jurisdiction of the Prefecture Apostoiic of Rhodes.

ruth. Initln,U. liO: Suitb, .. 164; Lacroii. lla dt ta

Urice U-Bnii, 18*)), :iuo; tuiNET, La Tunpiit tTAtit (Pa™,

1882),!, 429-432.

S. VailhIc. Le Sage, AluUN-Rbn£, writer, h. at Sarseau (Mor- bihan), 1668; d. at Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1747. The .son of a notary who died early in the youth's ' '

left the Jesuit col- lege of VannoB after the comple- tion of bis studies, and found himself

Be^dea these wnters and b


 * , L^rins hod also

many m' t^fc" of great sanctity; wi

Antoniua; the holy abbot ana martyr Aii^

tnduced the Botedictine Rule about 661; Abbot

r Aigulf, who it

. 3]CT.uie uuie aoout 661; Abbe

PorchariuB II, who was massacred with his monks by the Saracens about 732. St. Patrick, the apostle of Ireland, lived some time in the monastfrj', as wcU as St. Cassiai), founder of the monasterj- of St. Victor at Uaneilles.

The abbey was restored by the Congregation of Sfoanque ia 1868. They preserved whatever re- a of the ancient monastic buildings, that is to

guardian having squandered h i s fortune. He mar- ried at the age

at firai

practised

law, but he rciin nuislicil a profes- sion which did not proviile him with

for his needs, and devoted himself to literature. The , Abh6 dc Lvonne settled a sin all pension upon him

AUIN-RKKli T.R SaOB

» been devoted as that of L^'rins.

Jt Lirin: Hvioirt H Monummit (Pari

UN): IDBK, hVMiiliatt Smrnutrc dit arcAiivi d:-partmental j_ I, — .y-_-^-_._. ». . ■■ ,>,!__ .=) fart-"-'

icournged him to study Spanish literature, Lc Sage Imni'Iated a number of plays from that language, uithout fimling favour in the public eye. But a short oriEinal farce in |)rose, "CriMpin rival de son maltre", won marked huccpks fl7t)7). lU merits have kept it on the stage. Ia} Sage was both a dramatist and a novelist, and was a prolific writer of plays and romances. The enmity of the