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235 ST. DOMINICA 235 St. Dole, DoDA (3). St. Dolendis, Bolendis. St. Dolgar, Oct. 20. 6th century. Daughter of St. Aneurinus, or Gildas. Sister of St. Gwinnoc and six other saints, and aunt of St Garci. Her grandfather Caw came from Strathclyde (Arecluta) in Scotland, and settled in the Isle of Anglesea. His son, St. Aneurinus, or Gildas, was a soldier and poet in Wales, and sang of the battle of Caltraeth, which some say was in 472, some 510, or the end of the 0th century. Bey. Canon Hole, in Smith and Wace. St. DoUa, DoDA (3). St. Domaine, or Dohanie, Domana. B. Domana, Domaine, or Domanie, May 20. 7th century. Wife of St Gere- mar, or G«rmer,a distinguished personage at the court of Dagobert, and afterwards of Clovis II. (husband of St. Bathilde). Geremar resigned his honours and pro- perty, c. 048, to his son Amalbert, and became a monk, and subsequently abbot at Pentallum, near Bouen. Amalbert was killed a few years afterwards, and Geremar again had to dispose of his paternal estate of Vardes, on the Epte. He built there the monastery of Flavi- acum, afterwards of St. Germer de Flay, which he ruled until his death, Sept. 24, 058. AA.SS. Smith and Wace. Martin. St. Domania, Domana. Domenica, Dominica. Domicilla, May 7. In Canisius' Calendar, Y. M. Perhaps the same as DoMiTiLLA (2), who is worshipped on May 7. St. Domina, April 5. AA.SS. St. Dominatai Sept 14. Martyred with her three sons, Senator, Viator, and Cassiodorus, at Argentanum, in Calabria Citeriori, now St. Marco in Lamis, in Calabria. AAJSS. Bollandu Ferrarius, Nova Tojpograjphia in Martyrologio Bo- mano, St. Dominica (i), July 0, V. M. + about 302. Patron of Tropea, in Calabria. Bepresented carried by angels to her sepulchre at Tropea, as St. Catherine to Mount Sinai (Cahier, Sepulchres). Her story is from an old breviary in the church at Tropea, in Calabria. Her parents, Dorotheus and Arsenia, appear to have been Greeks of Asia Minor. They were long childless, and at last had this daughter, bom on a Sunday, wherefore they called her Cyriaca, which is Dominica in Latin. When the persecution arose under Maximian, the parents were constant in the faith, and their daughter no less so. She was condemned, at Nicomedia, to death by wild beasts, fire, and other evils, from all of which she escaped unhurt. She was then sentenced to bo beheaded. She asked for a short time for prayer, and kneeled down, and died peacefully while praying. Her parents were exiled to the banks of the Euphrates, and her body was miraculously trans- ported to Tropea. Various other names are attributed to her, but, Janning seems to think, without ^ood ground: Sicula, Palma, Martha, Battona, Nicetbia, and Euphejiia. B.M. AA.SS. St. Dominica (2), Domneca, or Dom- NiNA, Jan. 8, Jan. 10. + 474. Bom and baptized at Carthage, where she led, for many years, a holy and solitary life, and had iLe gift of prophecy. She is perhaps the same as Domnina, mother of St. George the Cozebite. AA.SS, Neale, Holy Eastern Church. Menology of the Emperor Basil. St. Dominica (3), May 13, V. End of 6 th century. Sister of St. Agrippinus, bishop of Como ; emulated his good works and holy life, and died soon after him. She is sometimes supposed to have been a nun and companion of SS. Liberata and Faustina in the convent of St. John the Baptist, afterwards of St. Margaret, at Como ; but Papebroch thinks she attained to holiness in a secular life and dress. AA.SS. St. Dominica (4), or Drusa, Feb. 5, V. M. Sister of St. Indract, or Hidra- chus. End of 7th and beginning of 8th century. These two saints were the children of an Irish king. They left Ireland as pilgrims with nine companions, intending first to visit Glastonbury. They landed at a port in England, called Tamerworth, or Tremanton, near Plymouth. There they made a long stay, dng a well, and built an oratory. Soon after their arrival,