44. Before the end of the fifth century, the church of St.
Maurice, and his Thebaean legion, had rendered Agaunum a
place of devout pilgrimage. A promiscuous community of both
sexes had introduced some deeds of darkness, which were
abolished (A.D. 515) by the regular monastery of Sigismond.
Within fifty years, his 'angels of light' made a nocturnal
sally to murder their bishop and his clergy. See, in the
Bibliotheque Raisonnee (tom. xxxvi. p. 435-438), the curious
remarks of a learned librarian of Geneva.