Chris Kenny

St Baudarinus

Construction with found twig

£365.00 (framed)

6cm x 21cm

August 1st

Baudarinus was bishop of Soissons but had to flee after refusing to hand over church property coveted by King Clotaire. He sailed for England after scratching his name and date on a rock. There for seven years he cultivated a monastery garden and grew famously excellent vegetables and simples used to cure many sick people.

Meanwhile in Soissons a drought and a famine, punishments from heaven, were laying waste to the country. An envoy was sent to fetch back Baudarinus helped by the inscription on the rock.

Baudarinus was unwilling to leave the peace of his fertile garden but obeyed God's will and returned to Soissons where he ended the famine. Simples that he brought from England were used to cure the King's daughter and other royal persons.

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