She fixed her residence in Lesser-Brittany, served God there in solitude with great fervour, and died near St. Brieuc, about the seventh age.

For several centuries her relics were kept in a shrine in a chapel dedicated to God under her patronage in the abbatial church of St. Denys near Paris; but part of them was dispersed by the Calvinists in 1567.

"[5] He then summarized her story as follows, She was the daughter of an Irish prince, according to the Legend of her Acts, and from her very infancy, she was remarkable for her innocence, and for observing all the Divine precepts.

However, she required them to answer, could she be compelled, as a believer in the one true God, to adore mute idols having no power to aid her, and to follow the pagan customs.

This reluctance on her part, to continue in the old superstitions, caused them great sadness, and they devised a means, as they thought, to divert her from leading a Christian life.

In that part of the country, they constructed a sort of shieling, with the branches of trees ; and in it, for a long time, they passed a life of meditation and penance.

The place of their retreat was at length accidentally discovered by a hunter, who, with his dogs, followed a boar, that fled before them, and sought refuge in the but of St. Osmana.

On signifying her earnestness to have that sacrament conferred on her, a vessel of water was procured, and in presence of those assembled, she was made a member of Christ's fold.

We are informed, that alter her baptism, the bishop employed a peasant to prepare a garden and lawn around Osmana's place of habitation, while another man was engaged to construct an oratory in which her devotions could be practiced.

Hearing of St. Osmana's gift of miracles, her parents had their daughter brought to the holy virgin, who, having offered a fervent prayer to God, touched her throat, and the bone was ejected with some effusion of blood.

Nor does Father Suysken think it at all improbable, that St. Osmana, who at first lived in Lesser Britain, afterwards went to Bria, and that there she died and was buried in Jotrum, where she has been so long held in special veneration.

Another opinion prevails, that our saint departed this life in Armoric Britain, and that about the time of the Norman Invasion, her remains were removed to Jotrum to save them from desecration.