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206 206 B. CONSTANCE B. Constance (7). O.S.D. -fe. IGOO. Nun under B. Antonia Guainabi at Bre8cia. B. Contessa, Sept. 8 (Latin, Comi- tissa), v. "f" c. 1308. Not mentioned in the martyrologies, but worshipped at Venice from the time of her death. Of the noble Venetian family Tagliapietri. Her parents did not approve of her daily attendance at the church of St. Maur. They forbade the servants to take her in the family gondola. Next morning she begged the gondoliers to take her to church as usual. They refused, not daring to disobey her father. Her apron served her for a boat and took her safe and dry to church. While she prayed she left the world, in the thirteenth year of her innocent life. AA.SS, St. Copagia, or Pompeia, queen of Armorica. Bom in the r>th, died in the 6th century. Wife of Hoel I., son and successor of Budic. Hoel and Copagia, with several children, took -refuge at the court of their relation. King Arthur, in Great Britain. Hoel returned to his own country in 518, drove out the French, and recovered the kingdom. Soon after- wards he went again to England to help King Arthur, and there he died, in 545. Copagia spent more than half her life in England. Her sons, Tugdual and Leonor, were born there. On his father's death, Tugdual, who was at the head of a monastery, resolved to return to his native country. His mother, his sister SsvA, and seventy-two monks went with him. They landed near the Conquet, in the parish of Ploumagoer, in Leon. Copagia's eldest son, Hoel II., sumamed Jona, was now king. He gave bis brother a piece of land in that neighbour- hood, where ho built a monastery. Tug- dual travelled all over Brittany, teaching the people and performing miracles of charity, until, in every district of the country, people begged to have a few of his monks settled amongst them, and offered land and service to build suitable residences for them. The principal monastery that Tugdual built was at Trecor, now Treguior, and there he was so much esteemed that the in- habitants of the neighbourhood chose him for their bishop. Childebert, king of France, gave him the bishopric, and desired that he should come to Paris to be consecrated. This he did about 5«*)2. Guerin, Peiitt Boll, St. Coppa, or CoBBA, Jan. 18, V. Supposed 5th century. Daughter of Baedan. Perhaps same as Cipia, mother of St. Bite, and veiled by St. Patrick. O'Hanlon, iii. 245. St. Coprica, April 7, M. with Victor, in Upper Libya. AA.SS. St. Corcair (l), March 8 (Cucagia, CuRACH, Quorraib), V. Daughter of Corpreus, son of Alild, king of Ultonia. Her mother's name was Lassara. Sister of St. Frigidian or Findian, bishop of Lucca, who converted his father, mother, and Corcair. She was to have married the King of Hungary, but took the veil instead. Findian raised her from the dead. Nobody dared to touch her grave ; if birds flew over it they fell dead. A bishop wanted to translate her relics and was stricken blind. Colgan. St. Corcair (2), Nov. U>, may be the same as Corcair ( l). St. Corccagia, or Cuucagia, July 2 1 . Sister of St. Tinan. Patron of Kilcur- gagia, in Ireland. St. Cordola, Cordula. St. Cordula, or Cordola, Sept. 2, Oct. 22, V. M. The only one of the com- panions of St. Ursula to whom the Roman Martyrology decrees a separate commemoration, and who is honoured with a semi-double rite throughout the Church. Many miracles attended her translation. Legend says she landed at Cologne with St. Ursula and the eleven thousand. Her courage failed when she saw the slaughter of her companions; she fled, and hid in one of the ships. Two days afterwards she repented of her cowardice, and presented herself to the barbarians, who killed her. Some accounts make her a daughter of Avitus and sister of St. Columba (0). About the middle of the 12th century she appeared to St. Helsntrude, a nun at Heerse in the diocese of Paderborn, and told her that her festival was to be kept the second day after that of her com- panions. She also appeared to Inge- brand de Burke, a brother hospitaUer of