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254 254 ST. ELAPHA Henry II. and Fair Bosamond. He was a ernsader in the Holy Land, with his half-brother, Eichard I.; and in 1219, went to a emsade in Egypt with Jean de Brienne, titular king of Jerusalem. William, although a good soldier, was lawless and unscrupulous. On his re- turn to England, he was for days in a storm in the Bay of Biscay; while in the greatest danger, the mast glowed with flames, held by a lovely female form. IIu thought this a call to conyersion. On his return, his wife, cherishing the idea, induced him to go to St. Edmund llich, canon of Salisbury, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury. By him William was converted, and forsook his sins. He died in 1226, and was buried at Old Sarum ; the tomb was afterwards removed to Salisbury CathedraL St. Edmund was ever after the friend and spiritual adviser of Ela. By his advice she built two monasteries, a Carthusian priory at Hinton, and an Augustinian nunnery at Laycock ; they were founded on the same day, April 10, 1232. She took the habit in the latter foundation in 1 236, and subsequently became abbess. Ela was once dangerously ill of fever, and was cured by St. Edmund, who sent her a phial containing some of the blood of St. Thomas the Martyr. She re- covered as soon as she took the sacred relic in her hand. The baronial seal of Ela, countess of Salisbury, 1226, is to be seen in the British Museum. Bacelinus, Men. Ben. Miss Yonge, Cameos from English HisUn-y, I. xxix. Hook, Archbishops of Canterbury. Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of England. Nic. Trivet, O.S.D., Annales, 1227-1232. Brit. Mart. Stanton, English Menohgy. St. Elapha, June 23, M. in Africa. AA.S8. St. Eldetrude, Hiltbude. St. Electa, companion of St. Ubhula, native of Cornwall, where she has a dedication. Stanton. St. Elemura, May 21, V. M. Native of Syria. Mentioned in the additions to Greven's Mart., but unknown to the BoUandists. AA.SS. B. Elena, Helen (13;. SS. Elenara (i) and Sponsaria, May 2, W.MM. c. 303. Companions of St. Macra. AA.SS. St Elenara (2), March 28 (Ele- VABA, ElvabaX Honoured at St. Riquier. Guenn. B. Eleonora do Correa, Feb. 23. Nun in a Benedictine convent at Castris, in PortugaL She lost the power of speech from inflammation of the throat, but it was restored just before her death. The day she died, the candles that were lighted in the chapel, not only burnt all day and were still whole at night, but the wax was increased by one-fifth. The angels sang at her death. Bucelinus. B. Eleri. 6th or 7th century. Daughter of Dingad. Lived at Pennant, in Gwytherin, Denbighshire. Bees, 275. St. Eleutheria, French LethAbe. Supposed to be the same as Ligebia. St Elevara, Elenaba (2). St. Elevetha, Almheda. St. Elfgiva, Elgiva. St Elfgjrfe, Elgiva. St Elfleda (l), Feb. 8 (^lbfled, ^LFLSD, jiElfled, Alfbede, Elsfleda, Elsfledt, Ethelfleta), v. c. 713. Abbess of Whitby. Daughter of King Oswy of Northumbria and St. Eanfleda. Niece of St. Oswald. Elfleda, when scarcely a year old, was vowed by her father to the service of God in perpetual virginity, as a thank- offering for his victory over the pagan Mercians, which liberated his country and established Christianity in it. She was at once consigned to the care of the holy abbess Hilda, then living at Hartle- pool. Two years later, Hilda built the famous double monastery of Streanes- halch, afterwards Whitby, with the dowry bestowed on Elfleda by her father Oswy. There Elfleda, never regretting her destiny, lived for sixty years, first as a learner, and afterwards as a teacher of monastic holiness. She succeeded Hilda as abbess in 680. St. Trumwin, formerly a missionary bishop among the Picts, assisted her in the management of her monastery, where he rested from his labours and where he was buried. Once when deprived by illness of the use of her limbs, she was cured by the girdle of St. Cuthbert, which he sent to her. This girdle also cured one of the nuns