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108 an abbey near Paris, which she had founded. She there took the habit of a nun, and submitted to the abbess she had established, with the greatest humility and cheerfulness. Batilda was canonised by Pope Nicholas I.

Letters of St. Foix; &c.

educated in the monastery of St. Croix, at Poictiers, founded by Radegonda. This princess wished the nuns belonging to it, to be equally respectable for piety and knowledge; and Baudonivia, entering into the views of the foundress, attached herself to the sciences. On the death of Radegonda in 587, she was intreated to write her life, which had been already done by a bishop. Baudonivia confined herself merely to notice what he had omitted. Her work remains in the first volume of the Acts of the Saints of St. Benoit. F. C.

was much celebrated by a famous troubadour or minstrel, named Pere Roger; and, being suspected of looking upon him with too favourable an eye, he was assassinated by some of her relations.

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BAYNARD,