Saint Latuin of Séez

The fury of the persecutors eventually discovered the place of his retreat. As he was accustomed to preaching the Gospel to all who came to him, among the crowd of those who came to hear him, his enemies sent hired assassins to strike him down. But the word of the holy Apostle suddenly touched these men, who fell at his feet, confessed their guilty plan, and begged for his forgiveness. He even gave them Baptism some time later, once he had instructed them. He returned to the city of Séez when the slanders raised against him were destroyed and peace was restored to him. He found himself obliged to leave it once again; he ardently desired martyrdom, and often cried out: 'O good Jesus! Who will grant me to die for you?' But he felt that his work still needed him, and that is why he fled before the persecution.

The holy bishop, in consecrating his church and cathedral under the title of Our Lady, was not content with preaching the love of Mary himself; he ordained several priests who, animated by his spirit, went throughout the region to make Jesus Christ and Mary known and loved, and to teach the people that the worship of the one is inseparable from the worship of the other.

He died exhausted from fatigue and old age, around the year 110, on June 20.

Under the reig n of Charles the Charles le Chauve Emperor who confirmed the rights of the priory in the 9th century. Bald, when the bands from the north rushed like a torrent upon Neustria, the relics of Saint Latuin were transported to the fortress o f Anet, in the di forteresse d'Anet Place of refuge for the relics of Saint Latuin. ocese of Chartres, where the memory of this event is celebrated on August 31 of each year. Later, in the 12th century, the inhabitants of this place ceded to Yves de Bellême the fo Yves de Bellême Lord who received a relic of the saint in the 12th century. urth finger of the right hand of the pontiff, the mystical finger where every bishop is accustomed to wear the ring of his alliance with the Church of which he is the pastor. This precious relic could not find grace before the sacrilegious furies of the Calvinists in the final years of the 16th century.

Since the time of the invasion of the Barbarians from the north, the diocese of Séez had been deprived of the venerable remains of its first bishop; but, t hanks to the Mgr Regnauld Bishop of Chartres who donated a relic in 1856. benevolence of Mgr Regnauld, Bishop of Chartres, a bone of the leg (the tibia) of Saint Latuin was ceded, in 1856, to Mgr Rousselet, Bishop of Séez, who performed its solemn translation into his cathedral on June 2 Mgr Pie Bishop of Poitiers who delivered the eulogy for the saint in 1858. 2, 1858, in the presence of Mgr Pie, Bishop of Poitiers, who delivered the eulogy of the Saint.

The memory of this Apostle is honored in the diocese of Séez on the date of June 20, and some ecclesiastical authors believe that S aint Latuin saint Latuin First bishop of Séez and evangelizer of the region. is not different from Saint Lain, whose feast the diocese of Chartres celebrates on January 19.

Proper of Séez. — See, for more details, the *Vies des Saints du diocèse de Séez*, by Abbé Billot.