they found Benedict and Scholastica’s remains, scooped them up, washed them, and “laid them upon fine clean linen . . . to be carried home to their own country.”14 Specifically, this meant their monastery at Fleury (subsequently known as Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, about 150 kilometers due south of Paris). There the abbot, Mommolus, recognized a good thing when he saw one. The linen in which they were wrapped now seemed to be soaked in miraculous holy blood: Mommolus declared this a sure sign of their authenticity. So the remains were reinterred with honor in a shrine that catapulted Fleury Abbey
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