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St. Baldomerus of Lyons

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St. Baldomerus of Lyons

Locksmith and Subdeacon

Baldomerus of Lyons, also called Galmier, was a locksmith who shared his earnings with the poor. He later lived at the monastery of St. Justus and died a subdeacon around 650.

Sources

The life below remains the existing Butler-based reading, with its edition citation. The profile preserves the feast date and source title already listed in the library. Additional personal dates and historical details are shown only when separately documented.

Butler sourceAlban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume II, Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1842; February 27, “St. Galmier, in Latin, Baldomerus,” p. 311.

The Book of Saints (1921)Benedictine Monks of St Augustine’s Abbey, Ramsgate, The Book of Saints: A Dictionary of Servants of God Canonised by the Catholic Church, A. & C. Black, London, 1921, p. 37, “Baldomer.”

The reading

ⓘ Butler source

Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume II, Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1842; February 27, “St. Galmier, in Latin, Baldomerus,” p. 311.

Baldomerus, known in French as Galmier, worked as a locksmith at Lyons. Butler’s short notice places prayer, sacred reading and generosity alongside his trade. He lived simply and gave his earnings to the poor, sometimes parting even with the tools by which he earned his living.

Viventius, abbot of St. Justus, first noticed his devotion in church. Conversation revealed a holiness that reached beyond outward appearances. The abbot offered him a cell within the monastery, where Baldomerus continued his life of prayer, penitential work and service to God.

He died as a subdeacon around the year 650. Butler identifies February 27 as the day recorded for him in the Roman Martyrology. His life began in an ordinary workshop, and the account remembers the charity of the craftsman as well as his later place within the monastery.

Historical note

An original Novena Regina reading adapted and summarized from the cited pre-1962 Butler edition. This is not a transcription of Butler’s words.

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