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94 04 ST. AURELIA « and Palestine, went to the tombs of the Apostles at Borne, and received the Pope's benediction. In the neighbonr- hood of Capua they were taken prisoners by the Saracens, who demanded that they fihonld renounce their religion. As they refused, they were beaten with great cruelty. But a frightful thunderstorm caused the barbarians to flee and leave their victims. The saints then went to Macerata, two miles from Anagni, where they were well received by a pious man, and, while they were spending the night hours in prayer, they died. The bells of Anagni rang and other miracles .mani- fested the sanctity of the departed. B,M, Suysken, in AA,SS. St. Aurelia (4), Oct. 15, V. 1 1^27. Princess of France. Beduse. Patron of Batisbon. Specially honoured at Strasburg. She is said, but not with certainty, to have been daughter to Hugh Oapet. Bucelinus says she was probably daughter of Lothaire, nephew of Louis d'Outremer. She was very beautiful and was promised to Elwein, a (young prince xelated to the king. Preferring a soli- tary religious life, she fled in disguise to Oermany, and betook herself to St. Wolf- gang, who recognized her. He built her « hermitage, where she lived unknown for fifty-two years. Her cell was after- wards converted into a chapel, and dedi- cated in the name of St. Andrew. She has been supposed to be sister of St. Ediona, who, however, is generally thought to have lived in the next century. Martin, from B. Gonon's Peres d' Occident, Kaderus, Bavaria Sancta, Du Saussaye. Mart Gallicanum. St. Aurelia (5), Oct. 15, V. (E.Jf.). Tradition says she was a native of Stras- burg and companion of St. Ursula. She died of fever outside her native city. A certain King Philip tried to open her sarcophagus, was seized with madness, ate his own hands and feet, and so died. AA.SS. B. Auria, or Oria, March 11, V. ^ about llOo. Bom at Villa Villayo, near Mansilla, six leagues from St. Emi- liano. Daughter of Garcia Nunnio and Amunna. Auria was given to piety, charity, and asceticism from her earliest years. She took the veil when young, and went to live with some women of kindred tastes, in a retreat adjoining the Bene- dictine monastery of St. Emiliano de Suso, according to the custom of the time, which permitted a community of consecrated virgins to live near a house for monks. She was favoured with celestial visions, and the fame of her sanctity spread over all the country. The abbot and two monks attended her death-bed : her mother was also present, and died a few days after her. A sepulchre was hewn for her in the rock, and there she and her mother were buried. Their tomb, some- what defaced by damp, was to be seen some hundreds of years afterwards, in the church of St. Emiliano de Suso. Sandovellins adds that the town of Soria on the Douro (Durium), near the ruins of Numantia, is a contraction of Saint' Oria, and is so called from this saint. be older, and think it more likely that the name is derived from St. Aurea (2), martyr at Cordova under Nero, or St. Aurelia (2), martyr at Cordova under the Saracens. AA,SS,, from Sando- vellins, Ancient Monuments, St. Auriga, Jan. 2, M. in Ethiopia, with SS. Claudia and Butila. AA,SS,j from St, Jerome's Martyrology. St. Ausonia, one of the martyrs of Lyons, who diod in prison. See Blan- DINA. St. Aussille, Auxilia. St. Austell, or AwsTLE, whose feast is on Trinity Sunday, is supposed to be the same as Hawstyl, the twenty-fifth daughter of Brychan. Arnold Forster. See St. Almheda. St. Austreberta (Anstrebert, Eus- treberoa), Feb. 9, 10, 16, Oct. 19 (trans- lation), V. Abbess, "f 703. Patron of Montreuil, in Picardy. Bepresented (I ) plunging her arm into an oven, in allu- sion to the legend that as her broom was burnt and she had to sweep the oven just before putting in the bread, she went in and dusted it with her sleeves; (2) with an ass, perhaps to denote the humility with which, though of high rank, she performed the meanest of&ces of the convent. Daughter of Vaufroi, mayor of the palace under Childeric, or Dagobei*t U.
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