Saint Lomer, Priest
by VP
Posted on Monday March 20, 2023 at 12:00AM in Saints
Innocence and Justice. "St. Lomer, a priest and treasurer of the church of Chartres, left the world while still young, and withdrew to a forest of the Perche, where he constructed a rude cabin of twigs, there to devote himself to prayer, and occupy himself solely with preparing for eternity amid the austerities of penance and holy meditations. he was there discovered, and many companions came to embrace this kind of life. But at length, being troubled by the concourse of strangers, he betook himself to another hermitage, in order there to remain unknown. The reputation of his sanctify betrayer him, in spite of all his efforts at concealment, and he found himself constrained to build a monastery. A vast crowd of sick persons always surrounded his cell, for the Lord had bestowed on him the gift of miracles. One day a rich man sent him, by way of alms, several pieces of gold, that he might pray for him and obtain his cure. Lomer took one of them only, and sent the others back, saying: "They are the proceeds of robbery; God does not accept such offerings: you will assuredly die." St. Lomer yielded up his spirit in 594.
Moral reflection: Prayer can never be found acceptable to God when proceeding from one who has committed injustice; hence it is said in Ecclasiasticus:"Be not anxious for goods unjustly gotten, for they shall not profit thee in the day of calamity and revenge." (Eccls. v 10)"
Source: Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Fr. Lecanu, 1865
