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Babon (Bavon, or Bonnon)

abbot of Corbie, or Corvey, in. Westphtlia, lived about the end of the 9th century, and wrote the History of his Times. Babylas, ST. In addition to the well-known martyr-bishop of Antioch, another of the same name is said to have been martyred, with eighty-four of his scholars, at, Nicomedia, under Maximian, about A.D. 310. Still another is commemorated in Bede's Martyrology on June 11.