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96 06 ST. AUTORICIA Manger, wanted to appropriate to himself her abbey, althongh it had been built by her family entirely at their own expense. She had recourse to Pepin, the new mayor of the palace, who took her part. Baillet. Butler. AA,SS. St. Autoricia, Dec. 16, V. M. Ho- noured with St. Tertulla at Algiers. Guerin, from the French Mart St. Auxilia, or Aubsille, Sept. 4, V. M. Worshipped at Thil and Precy, in Burgundy. AA^SS., from CasteUanus. P6tin, Diet, Hag. Ch&telain, Martyrologie Universel, Auxiliary Saints. Represented as a group of fourteen, each with an emblem. Among the fourteen are three women, Barbara (1), Catherinb (1), and Margaret (1). I have seen a print in which St. Agnes (2) also figured. There is no authority for supposing the Auxiliary Saints to be more powerful or more benevolent than other saints. The custom of resorting specially to their patronage is supposed to have begun in Germany, where they are called JSuZ- freichende. The men's names are : Bla- sius, bishop of Sebaste, M. George, the great Martyr. Giles, abbot Denis, M. Erasmus, bishop, M. Vitus, M. Cyri- acus, deacon, M. Pantaloon, physician, M. Eustace, M. Acacius, or Agath- angelos, bishop of Antioch. Christopher, giant, M. To these, Magnus, abbot, is sometimes added. Wetzer and Welte, Diet. ThMogique^ article by Stemmer. B. Ava, or AviA, April 29, V. 9th century. She was blind, and gave large gifts to many churches and shrines where she prayed to receive her sight. She was told by an angel that it should be given to her if she would pray at the sepulchre and relics of St. Eainfrede, at Dennain, or Dinant sur TEscaut, in Hainault. She therefore bestowed all her property on the church there, and took the veil in the convent where that saint had been first abbess. Ava is sometimes said to be one of the nine sisters of St. Rainfrede. Bucelin says she was second abbess of Dinan, near Valenciennes ; daughter of Adelbert, Count of Austrofandia, and Regina, niece of King Pepin. AA.SS. St. Avace, Avatia. St. Avangour, Feb. 25. St. Wal- BURGA is worshipped under this name in Touraine. St. Avatia) or Avace, June 20. She lived in the valley of Agordia, or Agor- dino, where she is worshipped in a church dedicated in her honour; it is between Belluno and Feltri,Jn Venetia. She received St. Luxan, bishop of Brixen, and ministered to him when he was driven out of his see. This is men- tioned in Ferrarius' Catalogue of Italian Saints. Papebroch, in AA.SS. St. Avaugourg, or Avonoourg. St. Walburga is so called in some parts of Poitou and Touraine. St. Ave. French for Avia. St. Avellia, Avbttia. St. Avenia, Oct. 22. •9th century. Sister or wife of St. Benedict, abbot. They were natives of Patras, in the Morea, and left their country with nine other religious persons bound by a com- mon vow. In the time of Charlemagne they settled at • Macerac, in Bretagne. Benedict lived to a great age, and was buried in his own oratory, before the middle of the 9th century. Victor de Buck, in AA.SS. St. Aventiana, Valentiana. St. Avetria, Avettia. St. Avettia, May 28, M. at Rome. Her name, sometimes written Avellia and Avetria, appears in a list of martyrs this day in the Martyrology of St. Jerome, Henschenius, in AA.SS. St. Aveze, Avia (2). St Avia (1), March 9. The holy grandmother. M. by the sword, with her husband, their son and daughter-in- law, or daughter and son-in-law, and two grandchildren. Commemorated by the Greek Church. AA.SS. St. Avia (2), Oct. 21 (Advisa, Aurea, Av^, Avi:zE, AvoiE, Eve), M. of vir- ginity. Date uncertain. She was killed by barbarians. Local tradition said that one of the ships containing the com- panions of St. Ursula was wrecked at Boulogne, in Picardy ; St. Avia survived the wreck, and lived as a recluse in a wood near Divema, four leagues from Boulogne. Other accounts say she was a hermit there at a rather later date. Perhaps the same as Aurea (6). AA.SS,