Saint Rumold

Obeying a warning from above, he set out for Gaul, having obtained the blessing of the Sovereign Pontiff, and he came to Mechelen, where he was Malines City where John Berchmans studied and completed his novitiate. received with kindness by Count Adon, to wh ose wife h comte Adon Local lord who welcomed Rumold to Mechelen. e announced a happy fertility. He conferred baptism upon the child she brought into the world, and gave him the name Libert. Later, t his ch Libert Son of Count Adon, baptized and resurrected by Rumold. ild having drowned, the Saint called him back to life. In gratitude for such a great benefit, the parents gave a piece of land to Rumold, and the Saint began the construction of a monastery which was later changed into a college of regular canons.

Rumold established the faith of Christ in Mechelen and in the surrounding areas, with such zeal and toil that he deserved to be named th e apostle of Mechel l'apôtre de Malines Former Bishop of Dublin, close friend of Saint Gomer. en. He often interrupted the external functions of his ministry to go and reflect in solitude. He was assassinated there on June 24, 775, by two scoundrels, one of whom, guilty of adultery, had experienced the effects of his zeal. The assassins threw his body into a river; but it was discovered miraculously and buried through the care of Count Adon, in the church of Saint Stephen; his reli église de Saint-Étienne The saint's first burial place in Mechelen. cs were later transferred to a church.

of his name, which is in Mechelen, and which Pope Paul IV raised to the dign ity of a métropole City where John Berchmans studied and completed his novitiate. metropolis. On April 3, 1369, they were deposited in a gilded silver shrine which was melted down in 1578 during the troubles that agitated the Low Countries. This loss was repaired in 1631, by means of a second silver shrine; it was taken away in 1794, at the second invasion of the French armies, and carried to the Bruss monnaie de Bruxelles City near the monastery where the court of the Count of Brabant resided. els mint to satisfy the exactions of the enemy. Finally, in 1825, on the occasion of the semi-centennial jubilee which was celebrated in Mechelen, the diocese contributed through voluntary donations to the making of a new silver shrine which still exists today.

He is represented: 1° with a crown on his head, because he is considered the son of a Scottish or Irish lord; 2° restoring life to the young Duke of Mechelen who had been drowned for three days; 3° preaching in a wood; 4° coming to France and healing a blind man; 5° returning the insignia of the episcopate to the Pope to become a monk; 6° healing a possessed person; 7° having a monastery built; 8° protecting through his prayers a nun abducted by pirates; 9° causing a spring of living water to emerge from the ground by striking it with his crosier; 10° bludgeoned with a pickaxe, a pick, an axe, and a club by workers he employed in the construction of his church and whom he had rebuked for their misconduct; 11° found in the water following a miraculous light that had risen above the place where his body had been thrown by his murderers; 12° glorious and trampling his assassins underfoot.

Acta Sanctorum Acta Sanctorum Monumental hagiographic collection by the Bollandists. , volume III of July: — Cf. Proper of Mechelen, Godescard, Rivet, etc.