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143 ST. CANDIDA 143 bade her go and touch her friend with it in the name of Christ. She cured her friend, and the staff was long preserved in the church at Naples. B,M, AA,SS. St. Candida (2), Dec. 1. 1st cen- tury. M. at Borne, in the time of Trajan, with Lucius her hushand, Bogatus and Cassian. Candida, Lucius, SerginsPaulus, and many others were converted bj St. Paul at Paphos, in Cyprus. B,M. Oynecseum. St Candida (3), June G. M. with her husband, St. Artemius, a jailor, and their daughter, St. Paulina (6), in the Diocletian persecution, at the end of the 3rd or beginning of the 4th century. Paulina was vexed with a devil. B. Peter, a prisoner in the custody of Ar- temius, healed her by his prayers, and was thus the means of converting Arte- mius, Candida, and their daughter. They with all their house and many others— at least three hundred men, besides women — were baptized by B. Marcellinus, a pres- byter. When the judge Serenus heard this, and Artemius refused to sacrifice to idols, he ordered him with his wife and daughter to be buried under a mighty pile of stones. As they were being led to the place, so many Christians met them that the murderers fied affrighted, only to be pursued, caught, and detained as prisoners until Marcellinus had cele- brated Mass in the crypt where the saints were to suffer. Marcellinus said to them, '* Lo, we had it in our power to injure you, and to take away from you Artemius and his daughter ; but this we have not done. What say you to this ?" Gnashing with their teeth upon the men of God, they slew Artemius with the sword; Candida and Paulina they cast headlong from the crypt — probably a cave — and overwhelmed them with stones. Another account says was beaten with *' lead-weighted thongs." The commemoration of St. Artemius is prescribed in the Breviary of Tours, 1036. RM, AA.SS., from a very ancient MS. belonging to the church of St Saviour at Utrecht. St Candida (4), Sep. 20, V. M. according to the Boman Martyrology, at Carthage, under Maximian, but claimed by the Church of Carthagena, in Spain, ad a martyr there. Patron, with St. Chari- TiNA (1)« of Carthagena. St. Candida (5), Aug. 99, V. M. whose body was translated by Pope Pascal I. (811-824) into the church of St. Praxedis at Home. B,M. This is, perhaps, the same as Candida (4). St. Candida (6), Jan. 7, M. in Greece. AA.SS. St. Candida (7), Jan. 7. AA.SS. St. Candida (8), Sept. 28, M. in Africa. AA.SS. St. Candida (9), Aug. 31. 4th century. Lived in Eome with her intimate friend, St. Marcellina (1), and followed her to Milan. Candida wad buried in the basilica of St. Ambrose, and has been venerated with the title of "Saint*' ever since the 9th century. Her portrait in mosaic is in the choir with those of Marcellina and Satyms. Her name is in the oldest manuscript of the Litany used on Bogation days. In very ancient times she was included in the Catalogue of Milanese Saints, and honoured by a special service on Aug. 31. Lady Herbert, Marcellina. St Candida (lO), wife of a general named Trajan. She and her daughter, a holy virgin, who predeceased her, were much given to manual labour, because Candida said that fasting was not enough to keep the devil out, hard work also was necessary. St. Gelasia was a disciple of Candida. Pattadii Lausiaca. St. Candida (ll),or Candia, Oct. 22, V. M. Native of Tortosa, in Spain. Companion of St. Ursula. AA.SS. St. Candida (12) the Younger, Sept. 4. Of Naples, f ^^^- ^ ^®^ pious woman, who loved Gt>d better than her husband and only son. She died beforo them and was buried in the church of St. Andrew, in a place called Ad Nidum, in or near Naples. Some time afterwards a miraculous liquid flowed from her tomb, and was found to be a cure for various diseases. B.M. AA.SS. St. Candida ( 1 3), Jan. 2 7. Towards the end of the 8th century. Worshipped at the monastery of Bafioles and village of Gujalbes, near Gerona, in Spain. Wife of a devout nobleman named Bandilow
 * ^ into the crypt," and adds that Artemius