ERMINUS (ERMIN), upon completion of his studies at the Cathedral School of Laon (northern France), and ordination to the priesthood, St. Erminus received monastic tonsure from St. Ursmar (19th April) at the the Abbey of St. Peter of Lobbes (abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lobbes), Hainaut, in present-day Belgium. Following nomination by St. Ursmar, St. Erminus was elected second Abbot of Lobbes in 718. He was known for his personal holiness, gift of clairvoyance, and wisdom. St. Erminus reposed in 737.

EVODIUS, HERMOGENES, and CALLISTA, (Date Unknown), listed in the oldest of martyrologies as having been martyred in Syracuse in Sicily. There is no further information extant. Some martyrologies list them on 2nd September.

HERIBALDUS, raised in the Court of Charlemagne (r. 768–814), St. Heribaldus received monastic tonsure at, and later served as Abbot of, the Abbey of Saint-Germain of Auxerre (abbaye Saint-Germain d'Auxerre) in Auxerre, Burgundy, present-day France. He was the first chaplain to the royal palace of Louis the Pious, King of the Franks (r. 814–840). Following the repose of his uncle, St. Angelelmus (7th July), Bishop of Auxerre, in 829, St. Heribaldus, with significant support from King Louis, was consecrated Bishop of Auxerre. St. Heribaldus reposed circa 857.

MACAILLE, Bishop of Croghan, Co. Offaly, Ireland, St. Macaille was a disciple of St. Mel of Ardagh (6th February) and assisted him in tonsuring St. Brigid of Kildare (1st February) into the monastic life. He reposed circa 489.

MELLA, Following the repose of her husband, St. Mella received monastic tonsure and eventually became Abbess of Doire-Mells in Co. Leitrim, Ireland. Our knowledge of this saint is based upon the limited information available from the noted hagiographer and historian John Colgan O.F.M. (†c. 1657) as well as in the Acta Sanctorum the Bollandists place her firmly in the eighth century. Yet at the same time both sources state she was the mother of two saints; St. Cannech (11th October) and St. Tigernach (4th April), who are generally accepted to have lived in the sixth century.

PHAEBADIUS (PHÉBADE), the first historically documented Bishop of Agen. He was close friends with St. Hilary of Poitiers (13th January) he fought Arianism and authored the still extant Contra Arianos (Against Arianism). St. Phaebadius is also one of the men St. Jerome profiled in De Viris Illustribus (On Illustrious Men). St. Phaebadius reposed circa 392.

ROBERT of SYRACUSE, abbot of a monastery in Syracuse in Sicily who reposed circa 1000. Nothing further is known of his life.

BENEDICT II, eighty-first Pope of Rome. Even during his education, St. Benedict excelled at singing, and was a noted Bible scholar. Elected in 683, St. Benedict’s enthronement took place almost a year later, as at that time the election of Popes required Imperial confirmation. During his papacy, St. Benedict fought against Monothelitism, helped bishops in Spain restore orthodoxy in their dioceses, and was able to secure the consent of Emperor Constantine IV (r. 668–685) to eliminate the requirement of Imperial confirmation of his successors. St. Benedict reposed in 685, and is buried in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

BONIFACE IV, a student of St. Gregory the Dialogist (3rd September). Then a monk at the Abbey of St. Sebastian in Rome, and deacon to St. Gregory the Dialogist, St. Boniface became the sixty-seventh Pope of Rome on 25th August, 608. As Pope, he oversaw the first conversion in Rome of a pagan temple into a church, supported the evangelisation of England, and promoted reforms amongst the clergy coupled with improved living and working conditions. Towards the end of his life, St. Boniface converted his home into a monastery, where he then lived balancing his time between papal responsibilities, and monastic life. St. Boniface reposed 8th May, 615, and was buried at Old St. Peter’s Basilica. His relics were translated to St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome in 1603.

DESIDERATUS (DÉSIRÉ) of BOURGES, a courtier to Clotaire I, King of the Franks (r. 551–558), who fought against both simony and Nestorianism. Although it was St. Desideratus’ desire was to retire to monastic life, he was instead in 541 chosen to serve as the twenty-third Bishop of Bourges in Aquitaine (France). During his time as Bishop St. Desideratus continued his fight against heresy, and also attended both the Fifth Council of Orléans and the Second Council of Auvergne (Clermont) both of which took place in 549. St. Desideratus reposed in 550.

DIONYSIUS (DENIS) of VIENNE, the sixth Bishop of Vienne in the Dauphiné (south-eastern France). According to St. Ado (16th December), a ninth century Bishop of Vienne and noted martyrologist, St. Dionysius was one of the ten missionaries who accompanied St. Peregrinus (16th May) from Rome to evangelise Gaul. St. Dionysius reposed circa 193.

GIBRIAN, an Irishman who, along with his five brothers and three sisters, went to Reims (north-eastern France), where he was blessed by St. Remigius of Reims (1st October) to live as a hermit at a location that is now called Saint-Gibrian after him. St. Gibrian reposed circa 515.

HELLADIUS of AUXERRE, the third Bishop of Auxerre (Burgundy, France), St. Helladius served that See for thirty years. He reposed in 387, and was succeeded by St. Amator (1st May), whom St. Helladius had brought to Christ.

IDA (ITA, IDUBERGA) of NIVELLES, following the repose of her husband, St. Pepin of Landen (21st February), St. Ida built the double monastery at Nivelles, in present-day Belgium, that later was known as the Abbey of St. Gertrude, after St. Ida’s daughter and first Abbess, St. Gertrude of Nivelles (17th March). St. Ida spent the rest of her life at Nivelles Abbey, reposing in 652.

ODRIAN of WATERFORD, (Date Unknown), an early Bishop of Waterford, Co. Waterford, Ireland, and patron saint of the city of Waterford as well. No further information, including the dates he lived, about this saint exists.

VICTOR the MOOR (MAURUS), a soldier in the Roman Praetorian Guard originally from Roman Mauretania (parts of present-day Algeria and Morocco), and a Christian from youth. St. Victor managed to live to an old age before being persecuted for his faith. St. Victor was arrested, circa 303, tortured by being basted in molten lead, and then beheaded.

WIRO, PLECHELM, and OTGER, St. Waro was the second Bishop of Utrecht in Frisia (present-day Netherlands). St. Wiro, with two companions, SS. Plechelm and Otger founded a monastery at on a hill above present-day Sint Odiliënberg in the Netherlands. All three saints reposed in the mid-eighth century.