Saint Babolen (or Babolenus, Babolin, Babolein; died ) was Abbot of

Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Abbey Saint-Maur Abbey (french: Abbaye de Saint-Maur), originally called the Abbaye des Fossés, is a former abbey now subsumed in the Saint-Maur-des-Fossés suburb of Paris, France. The remains and the domain of the abbey have been transformed into a ...

near Paris. He may have been Irish in origin. His feast day is 26 June.

Monks of Ramsgate account

The monks of

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wrote in their ''Book of Saints'' (1921),

Baring-Gould's account

Sabine Baring-Gould Sabine Baring-Gould ( ; 28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,2 ...

(1834–1924) in his ''Lives Of The Saints'' wrote under June 26,

Butler's account

The hagiographer

Alban Butler Alban Butler (13 October 171015 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer. Biography Alban Butler was born in 1710, at Appletree, Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire, the second son of Simon Butler, Esq. His father died when ...

(1710–1773) wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'' under June 26,

O'Hanlon's account

John O'Hanlon (1821–1905) wrote of Babolin in his ''Lives of the Irish Saints''. He noted that the nationality of the saint is doubtful, although some consider he was a Scot or Irishman. St. Babolenus, Abbot of Fossey, in Gaul has been confused with St. Papolenus, Bishop and Abbot, first at Malmundarium and afterwards at Stabuletum in Belgium, and with another abbot called Babolenus at Bobbio. O'Hanlon wrote,

Relics

The Chapel of Our Lady of Miracles, located next to the portico of the Church of St. Maur, was deconsecrated in 1750 and the relics of Saints Maur and Babolen were brought to the archdiocese of Paris to be distributed. The canons of St. Maur received the reliquary of St. Babolen and other items. The parish church of St. Maur received a vertebra and a small rib of St. Babolen. A bone from one of St. Babolen's arms went to the Chapel of St. Bond in the parish of St. Merry. The parishes of Joui-le-Moutier and Bois-d'Arcy in Paris received three other small bones of St. Babolen. The archbishop retained only the left

tibia The tibia (; ), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects ...

of St. Babolen.

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