[1] The Monks of Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921), Geremarus (St.) Abbot (Sept. 24)(7th century) Born A.D. 608, of rich and noble parents, the Merovingian King Dagobert I made him (with his friends Eloi and Ouen) Royal Councillors.

He was born at their castle in the village Warandra, in the reign of King Clotaire; married a pious lady named Domana, and whilst yet a layman, built a monastery in honour of Saint Peter, called the Island, which was afterwards destroyed by the Normans, and is now an estate belonging to Saint Germer’s abbey.

He was soon after chosen abbot, but finding the monks averse to regularity he left the abbacy, and led an anchoretical life in a cave near the river Seine five years and six months.

His relics, for fear of the Norman plunderers, were conveyed secretly to Beauvais, where they are still kept in the cathedral, except the bones of one arm, which have been given back to Saint Germer’s.

[3] In 1643 August Potier, bishop of Beauvais, placed monks of the congregation of Saint Maur in this abbey, and erected in it a great school for the humanity studies to the end of rhetoric.