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Rh all of whom used to join in singing prayers and praises in the choir. Fourteen days after Barhara*s death one of these maidens died; in fourteen days more another died ; and so on, at regular intervals, until all the twenty were gone to sing with her in heaven. Stadler und Heim, from Bader.

B. Barbara (3), or Barbe, April 18. Carmelite. Called in religion Mary of the Incarnation. 1565-1618. She was born in Paris, and was daughter of Nicholas Avrillot, seigneur de Champlâtreux, maître des comptes. She married Pierre Acarie, and had six children. He died 1613, and she became a lay sister in the Order of Reformed or Barefooted Carmelites at Amiens. Her daughter, Margaret Acarie, was a very devout Carmelite nun. (See Theresa (7).) In France Barbara was regarded as founder of the order, because it was through her exertions and representations that it was introduced into that country. The nuns at Amiens pressed her in vain to become their abbess. She died a nun, at Pontoise, in a community of Beformed Carmelites, of which the Ven. Anna of St. Bartholomew was the first prioress. Miracles were ascribed to Barhara. The queen-mother, Marie de' Medici, erected s magnificent tomb in her honour, and headed the efforts made to procure her canonization. In 1792 she was declared "Blessed" by Pius VI. In the Martyrology of the Order of Barefooted Carmelites, she appears as "Blessed Mary of the Incarnation." She seems, however, to be generally remembered as Barbe Avrillot, probably because many nuns have taken the name of Mary of the Incarnation, amongst them two saintly Prench women, contemporary with Barbara; they were Amaurie Trochet and Marie Guyard. Neither of them is honoured with worship or with a place in the calendars. A.R.M. Michaud, ''Biographie Universelle. Biografia Ecclesiastica. Barbara's Life'' has been written by Duval, Maurice, and others.

St. Barbata (1), Wilgefortis.

St Barbata (2), Paula Barbata.

St. Barbe, Barbara.

St Barbea, Jan. 29, Sept. 5 (Bebea, Bevea, Fivea, Thibea). 1st or 2nd century. M. at Edessa in Syria, with her brother St. Sarbelius or Sabbollus, a heathen priest in the time of Trajan (97-117) or that of Hadrian (117-138). They were converted by St. Barsimæus, Bishop of Edossa, and afterwards brought many Greeks to Christianity. Sarbelius was sawn asunder. Barbea, after having the fiesh scourged off her bones, was despatched by a spear-wound in the back of her head. R.M. Jan. 29. AA.SS., Jan. 29, Sept. 4. In the Menology of Basil, Sept. 5, they are called Thuthael and Bebea; in Slavonian calendars, Sept. 5, Thiphael and Thibea, or Fifael and Fivea.

St Barbill, Barbara (1).

St. Baripsabe, Sept. 10. In some

Eastern calendars Baripsabe's name is added to those of SS. Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora. Græco-Slavonic Calendar. Baris, Paris, or Barka, March 20, M. with Anna (7).

St. Baromia, Beata (i). St. Barran, Aug. 9, an Irish V. Kelly's Calendar, from "Martyrology of Tallagh."

B. Bartolommea (1), May 19, V. of Siena, † 1348. She changed her name to Elizabeth on entering the Third Order of Servites or Servants of Mary, founded by St. Juliana Falconieri. Bartolommea was a beloved disciple of the Blessed Francis of Sienna, of the same order. Her relics were kept in the church of the Servants of Mary at Siena, and worked miracles, her head being particularly beneficial to de- moniacs. Papebroch, in 'AA.SS. Mas Latrie, Trésor, St. Baruaba. See Faith, Hope, and Charity

St Basa (l), Sept. 21, M. at Tyre. Greek Synaxary, quoted by the AA.SS.

St. Basa (2), Bassa (l), Aug. 21.

St Basia (l),or Barbara, May 19, M.

St Getulia, in Africa. AA.SS.

St Basia (2), Barbara.

St. Basila, or Basilissa, Sept. 22, M. with SS. AuREA (10) and Nusca. They are worshipped at Ostia and in Via Sidaria. Basila's body is kept in the church of St. Paul at Rome. Perhaps the same as St. Bassilla, M. 304, who