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107 B. BEATRICE D'ESTE 107 bishop, the holy women Herekia and Felicitab, and other martyrs. B.M, AA.SS. St. Beata (2), Benedicta. St Beatrice (l), Jan. 29, July 29 (Beatrix, Viatrix), V. M. 303. Itepresented holding a rope in her left hand and a candle in her right. (Husen- beth, from MS. "Honrs.") A Roman maiden. Sister of the martyrs Simplicins and Fanstinns, whom she bnned in the Via Portneusi. She was strangled by the servants in her own house, by order of Lucretius, to whom she was betrothed, and who had denounced her as a Christiau, that he might seize on her wealth. She was buried by St. Lucina, with whom she had lived for seven months. While Lucretius was feasting with his friends and speaking in an insulting manner of the Christian martyrs, he heard a voice say, ^'Hear, O Lucretius, thou hast killed and taken possession, therefore thou art given into the hands of the enemy." He turned pale and trembled, the devil entered into him and vexed him for three hours, and then he died. All the guests were so terrified that they became Christians, and told every one how St. Beatrice had been avenged. The Leggendario says the mysterious voice was that of an infant whom a woman was nursing as she stood among the crowd. The church of Bethersden, in Kent, is the only one in England dedicated in honour of St. Beatrice. B.M^ July 29. Martyrum Ada, Villegas. St Beatrice (2), or Bozena, Nov. 1 3. 1 2th or early 1 3th century. Bozena was probably her Bohemian name, that of Beatrice she most likely adopted on taking the veil. Her father, Sezima, belonged to one of the most noble and powerful families of Bohemia, the Counts of Guttenstein and the Counts of Wrtby. Her mother was Dobroslava, of the family of the Cemine. Her brother Hrosnata is one of the famous saints and patrons of Bohemia; he built, in 1196, a monastery of the PrsBmonstratensian Order. These saints are supposed to have been bom at Tepl. Beatrice had a sister Wotblava, a holy widow, and two unmarried sisters, Bohuslawa and Jadith, who became nims with her in the monastery of Chotiesso^. The dates of her birth and death are not known. Hrosnata died at an advanced age in 1217. The BoUandists promise a Life of Beatrice on her day. The above is from their Life of St, Hromata, July 4, and H. J. Earlik's Hroznaia und die Prdmonstratenser Ahtei Tepl. . B. Beatrice (3) d'Este, May 10, V. 120G-124G. Three women of this name and family are honoured for their sanctity; they all lived in the 13th century. This one was daughter of Azo, first Marquis of Este, Lord of Ancona^ Ferrara, Yerona, etc. Her mother was the Princess Leonora, daughter of Thomas III., of Savoy. Beatrice was bom in the Castle of Este. At the age of fourteen she became a nun in the convent of St. Margaret, at Solarola, near Este. When she had been there a year and a half, finding the place liable to be disturbed by soldiers, she removed, with the approbation of the Bishop of Padua, to the monastery of St. John the Baptist at Gemmola, or Demola, in his diocese. It had been deserted by monks. She restored it for herself and her com- panions, with the help of her brother Azo. B. Juliana of Collalto was one of ten nuns who settled with her at Gremmola. Some money was found on the altar, and although there was nono but that in the house, Beatrice gave it away in alms, lest it should be a begin- ning of avarice in the community. Six years after her death her body and the epitaph were translated to the church of St. Sophia at Padua. For many years afterwards it was observed that when- ever anything important was about to happen in the fanuly of Este, she turned rouqd in her place, and a great noise was heard in the chapel. Bucelinus, Men, Ben,y May 10, and Life of B. Juliana of Collalto^ Sept. 1. Bucelinus gives 1220 as her date, but I think it is the date of her taking the veil. Her name does not appear in the Boma^i Martyrologyy but her niece and namesake is called "Blessed Beatrice Estense Secunda" implying that the aunt is the first. Muratori, Antichita Eaiense. Pape- broch, in AA,SS.