before the application of the law of 1901 against religious congregations had different teaching congregations of brothers, in addition to the Redemptorists. Among the congregations of nuns originating in the diocese may be mentioned: the Sisters of Providence, a teaching and nursing institute founded in 1683 with mother-house at Séez; the Sisters of Christian Education, established in 1817 by Abbé Lafosse, mother-house at Argentan, and a branch of the order at Farnborough in England; the Sisters of Mercy, founded in 1818 by Abbé Bazin to nurse the sick in their own homes. Some bishops According to the Georges Goyau, "Louis Duchesne believed that for the period anterior to 900 no reliance can be placed on the episcopal catalogue of Séez, which we know by certain compilations of the sixth century." A later tradition assigns Saint Latuinus to the first century and make him a missionary sent by Pope Clement I. Saint Latuinus (Lain, Latuin) (5th century?). Sigisbald (451?) Saint Landry of Séez (480?) Passivus, first bishop of Séez historically known, according to Louis Duchesne. Assisted at four councils after the year 533. Saint Raverennus (date uncertain) Saint Aunobertus (about 689); assassinated, whose double episcopacy Duchesne assigns to the close of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century Hildebrand, predecessor of Adelin Saint Adelin of Séez, author of a work on the life and miracles of Saint Opportuna of Montreuil Gerard I (d. 1091) Gervase (1220–1228), a Premonstratensian, who had the confidence of Celestine III, Innocent III, and Honorius III Jean Bertaut (1607–1611), who, with his fellow-student and friend, Du Perron, contributed to the conversion to Catholicism of Henry IV of France, and who was esteemed for his poetical talents. Guillaume-André-Réné Baston, appointed by Napoleon. Saints and pilgrimages Some saints were especially venerated in this diocese. These included Ravennus and Rasyphus, martyred in the diocese about the beginning of the third century. Saint Céronne (d. about 490) founded two monasteries of nuns near Mortagne; and Saint Cenerius, or Céneri (d. about 669), born at Spoleto, was the founder of the monastery of Saint Cenerius. Saint Opportuna, sister of Saint Chrodegang, and her aunt, Saint Lanthilda, were abbesses of the two monasteries of Almenèches (end of the seventh or beginning of the eighth century). Saint Evremond (d. about 720) was the founder of the monasteries of Fontenay les Louvets and Montmevrey. Saint Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1099), as Comte