ST. JOHN, PRIEST AND CONFESSOR, SURNAMED OF MOUTIER, AND OF CHINON

ST. GREGORY of Tours informs us, that he was a native of Great Britain, and led a retired life at Chinon, or Caion, a village in the diocese of Tours. He confined himself to a little cell and oratory, with an orchard over against the church, and declined all superfluous commerce with men. In his orchard, which he cultivated himself, he planted a few laurel-trees, which, says St. Gregory, are now so grown, that the boughs being brought together they form an agreeable shade. Under these laurel-trees he used to sit reading or writing. After his death he was interred in the same place, and many sick were restored to their health by his intercession with God, as the same author assures us. Saint John flourished in the sixth century. He is commemorated in the Roman, Gallican, and English Martyrologies, on the 27th of June. See St. Gregory of Tours,1. de Gloriâ Confess., c. 23, &c.