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229 BB. DIANA, CECILIA, AND AMATA 229 ibose of his or her companions, names unknown, brought from Eome and placed in the Jesuits' Church at Toumay, 1612. Called by Qu6rin, Stb. Deppe, perhaps the same as St. Delph, or Dieppe. AA.SS., Prseter. St. Derbhfraich, Dareroa (3). St. Derbhiledh, Darbilb. St. Dercain, a name of St. Eairecha, or Chinreacha. 0*Hanlon, i., in Life of Ita. St. Derchairthinn. An Irish saint of royal descent, and of the family of St. Maedhof (6th or 7th century), pro- bably of Onghterard, co. Rildare. Gam- mack, in Smith and Wace. St Derfroechea, Darerca (3). St. Derinella. An Irish nun, sup- posed to have lived in the 6th century, and to be the same as St. Tuella. Lanigan, from Colgan. St. Derivla, Darbile. St. Derlugdacha, Darlugdacha. St. Derlughach, Darlugdacha. St. Dermor, July 6. An Irish saint, daughter of Maine, and, perhaps, sister of the virgins Ethne and Cumman. St. Derphuta, March 20, M. with Alexandra (3). B.M. St. Derthrea, or Dorothea, Ita. Colgan, Ita, chap. iii. Donegal and other Martyrologies. St. Derwa, "the Martyr," gives name to a plaice " Mertherderwa," now Menadarva, in the parish of Camborne, Cornwall. Bev. C. W. Boase, in Smith and Wace's Dictionary. St. Detta, Tetta (2). St. Deuris. (See AcRABONiA and ASKAMA.) St. Devota, Jan. 27 (Deivota, Di- voTA ; in some parts of France, Divue), M. during the persecution under Diocle- tian. Patron saint of Monaco. Devota, a young girl in Corsica, took refuge in the household of Eutychius, a senator, that she might serve Grod in safety under his protection. Soon after- wards Barbarus, the governor, or a bar- barian chief, came with a fleet to Corsica, and held a great feast and sacrificed. When he heard that Eutychius had a girl in his house who worshipped some crucified Jew and despised the gods (»f the liomans. he demanded that she should be given up and compelled to sacrifice. Eutychius refused this de- mand, saying that no power on earth would compel her so much as to bend her head to a heathen god. '* Give her up to me : she shall soon obey," said the tyrant. " I would not give her up for all your gold," replied Eutychius. The enraged persecutor, not daring to attack Eutychius openly, had him poisoned, and then he seized Devota, who, on her renewed refusal to sacrifice, was tied by the hands and feet, and dragged over sharp stones ; she mean- while sang a psalm of praise, and prayed that Eutychius might be numbered among the elect, because he had died for his kindness to her. When she was stretched on the equu- leus, a voice from heaven was heard encouraging her, and her spirit was seen to ascend thither in the form of a dove. The Christians took her body by night, and placed it in a ship to take to Africa ; but the wind was contrary, their lives were endangered by a fearful tempest, and they were compelled to take the opposite course. They were then guided by a dove to the place now called Monaco, where they buried the martyr in the church of St. George. AA.SS., and an old Italian book of Corsican and Sardinian saints. St. Devote, Sept. 26. A pious woman in the province of Gascony. Either the same as Devota of Corsica, or DoDA of Auxitania, which is Gas- cony. Saussaye, Jtfar^ Gall. Gynecspum. AA.SS., Prsetermisai. St. Dewin, Dwynwen. St. Dextra, Dextrus, or Dexter, May 7, M. in Africa. BB. Diana (1H+ i^'^^)» Cecilia (+ 1290), and Amata, Jane 10, VV. of the Order of St. Dominic. Each of them commemorated on other days in other calendars, but Papebroch, AA.SS., mentions them all three together, and gives their Life by Malvenda, collected from various authors. B. Diana was founder of the convent of St. Agnes, in Monte, at Bologna. She was an only child 'of the family of Andalo, one of the richest and most important in