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173 ST. CHELIDONIA 173 and there Cesaria died, in 530. She was succeeded by another Cesaria, who was living twelve years afterwards, at the time of the death of the good arch- bishop. By his will, which is extant, he left all his property to the nunnery. The rule which St. Cesarius drew up for the nuns may be read in his Life, by the Bollandists. It was afterwards changed in this monastery for that of St. Benedict. Butler, " St. Cesarius," Aug. 27. Baring- Gould. AA.SS. Baillet. St. Cesaria (4), Casaria (i). St. Cessia, Nov. l, M. at Terracina, with seven women and eight men, at the end of the 1st century. Mentioned in the old martyrologies. AA,SS, St. Cetamaria, Ethembria. St. Cethuberes, or Cethubris, Ethembria. St. Cetumbria, Ethembria. St. Chaphte, or Ch apthe, Agatha ( 1 ). SS. Chariessa, or Cariessb, Chris- tiana (1), or Christina (2), Basilissa (4), Galla, Gallena, Lota, Nunechia, Calis, Nice, Tertia, and Theodora, April 16. 3rd century. These saints were taken to Corinth and made to walk to the seashore. Chariessa sang psalms and hymns loudly the whole way. They were put on hoard ship and, when thirty stadia from the land, a stone was fastened to the neck of each, and they were all thrown into the water. AA.SS. St. Chans, or Caris, Jan. 28, M. There is a Greek distich saying that when her feet were cut off she ran to heaven, her soul being more nimble when her body was lame. Date unknown. AA.SS. St Charisia, Carisia (i). St Charissima, Cabissima. St. Charitana, or Caritaine, June J 2, M. at Rome. St. Charitina (l), Oct. '5, Jan. 15, M. at Amisus, in Fontus, about 304. Patron of Venice and Carthagena. Bepresented (1) with an angel extin- guishing a funeral pile ; (2) with a pair of tongs. Charitina was servant to a Christian, named Claudius, who was much grieved when he was ordered to deliver her up to Domitius, comes under Diocletian ; but she comforted him, and said she would offer her life as a sacrifice for his and her own sins. He begged her to pray for him in the heavenly kingdom. Burning coals were strewn on her head» and after other tortures she was thrown into the sea. She considered that would stand in the place of baptism. She was not drowned but came safely out of the water, and stood before her persecutor, who inflicted various tortures ; finally her teeth were pulled out and her fingers and toes cut off, and she died of exhaustion. B.M., Oct 5. Men. Basil, Jan. 15. AA.SS. The Bollandists, in their account of this saint, say there is another St. Charitina, Sept. 4. KuBenheih, Emblems. St. Charitina (2 Oct. 5. A mem- ber of the family of the dukes of Poland. Married Theodore, a Russian prince. After his death she became a nun in the convent of SS. Peter and Paul. Date uncertain. Annual commemoration in some places in the province of Novgorod. ChrsecO'Slav. Calendar. AA.SS. St Charito, June l, V. M. c. 167. Scourged and beheaded at Rome, with St. Justin and two other Christians. A short account of their trial and execution is given in Greek and Latin by Pape- brooh, from ancient judicial Acts. The narrative differs from many of its class- in that it contains no miracles, no theo- logical argument, no denouncing of the- judge or officers of justice by the prisoners, no wholesale conversion or destruction of spectators or executioners. AA.SS. St Charity (l). See Faith, Hopb^. and Charity. St Charity (2), Dec. 25. Abbess ai Bethlehem. Ferrarius. St. Chatte, Agatha. St. Chelidonia, Oct. 13 (Ckladoinb,. Cheladoina, Claridonia, Cleridona),. V. Anchorite, -f nb2. One of the patrons of Subiaco. Bom of a good family in the Abruzzi, singularly pious from her earliest childhood, she lived nearly sixty years as a recluse among the mountains near Subiaco. After she had begun her solitary life, she made a pilgrimage to Bome. On her return, she took the veil, in the convent of St. Scholas- tica, at Subiaco. Instead of remaining there, she spent the rest of her life in