Lomer (saint)

Due to his reputation for performing miracles, including the gift of prophecy, a number of disciples came to his hermitage in the forest.

[1] The presence of these disciples led Lomer to eventually found a cenobitic community, the monastery of Curbio, in c.

[5] While most of his body is said to have been translated to the monastery at Blois, his head was allegedly interred at a priory in Auvergne.

In the early twentieth century, an event in the life of St. Lomer - an incident involving the theft of the saint's favourite cow - was published in The Book of Saints andFriendly Beasts, a collection of brief hagiographical tales for children, compiled by Abbie Farwell Brown.

[6] Lomer's vita states that the abbot was so holy that 'savage wild beasts obeyed when he commanded'; according to Robert Bartlett, this obedience was intended to remind readers of the idyllic lives of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.