393, 400, _passim_.] Thus runs the legend of Saint Remi as it was told by churchmen.

In those days the pious hermit Montan, who lived in the country of Laon, beheld a choir of angels and an assembly of saints; and he heard a voice full and sweet saying: "The Lord hath looked down upon the earth.

That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain: that they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem.

When the people assemble together, and kings to serve the Lord.[309] And Cilinia shall bring forth a son for the saving of the people." [Footnote 309: Psalm ci, 20-23.

_Vulgate_, Douai Version (W.S.).] Now Cilinia was old, and her husband Emilius was blind.