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 to remain with her as long as she lived. One night a pious woman saw Adelaide's dwelling brilliantly lighted up, and going nearer, saw the saint as if she were made of flame. Once when she was very ill, it was revealed to her that she should live a whole year longer and suffer much, and that her torments should avail for the living and for the dead; therefore, when she lost her right eye, she offered that for the salvation of William, count of Holland, who had just been elected king of the Romans, 1247; and when she lost her left eye, she assigned the fruit of that penance to St. Louis, king of France (IX. of his name), who was then in Palestine with the crusading army. Although herself a leper, she had the privilege of curing other lepers by her touch. A golden cross was sent to her from heaven. On St. Ursula's day, she heard the nuns singing Matins, and prayed that, although excluded from the choir on earth, she might be associated with the sainted virgins in heaven; she was answered that she should be placed not only with the companions of, but in a higher rank. She died 1250, and her spirit was seen to be received by Christ and the angels. Henschenius, in AA.SS. Boll., from a Cistercian writer of the 13th century, June 11. Bucolinus. ''Men. Ben.'', June 11. A.R.M. Cist., June 15.

B. Adelaide (11), or, Aug. 2, countess of Blois. 1243-1288. Daughter of John I., duke of Brittany. Married, 1254, to John de Chatillon, first count of Blois. She went to the Holy Land in 1287, and died on her return, Aug. 2, 1288. Her body was placed near that of her husband, in the abbey of la Guiche (which she had founded), near Blois. Collin de Plancy, Saintes et bienheureuses.

St. Adelberga,, queen of Northumberland.

B. Adelina (1),.

St. Adelina (2), Oct. 20. c. 1152. V. Abbess. Granddaughter of William the Conqueror. Sister of St. Vitalis, abbot and founder of the famous Cistercian monastery of Savigny, in Anjou. He built a house near his own, for Adelina and a community of nuns; but after a few years he transferred them to Mortain, in La Manche, in Normandy, founded by their brother William, count of Mortain. Adelina's nunnery was popularly called Les Blanches, the White Ladies of Mortain. She died about the middle of the 12th century, and was buried at Mortain; and about 100 years afterwards, was translated to Savigny, and laid beside her brother Vitalis and another brother, Godfrey, also abbot of Savigny. The church of Little Sodbury, in Gloucestershire, is dedicated in her name, Boll., AA.SS. Migne, ''Dic. des abbayes''. Miss Arnold Forster, Dedications.

B. Adelind, Aug. 28. 8th and perhaps part of 9th century. Founder and first abbess of Buchau, or Buchen, in Suabia. Born in the castle of Andechs. Represented distributing loaves to the poor. Sister of St. Hildegard, wife of Charlemagne. Married Hatto or Otho, count of Kesselburg, who was killed, with their three sons, in a great battle against the Huns, at a place called afterwards the Valley of Tears. They had another son, a deacon, who died of grief soon after the death of his father and brothers. After the Huns were driven out of Germany by Charlemagne, Adelind founded a monastery in memory of her husband and sons; buried them within its precincts; took the veil, and became first abbess there. She died Aug. 28, and is honoured on this day or Aug 21. Perier, the Bollandist, in AA.SS. Pétin, ''Dic. Hag.'' Moustier. Guenébault, ''Dic. d'Icon.''

St. Adeliza,,.

St. Adeloga,.

St. Adeltrude (1), Feb. 24, 25, V. 7th century. Abbess. Daughter of B. Vincent and, and granddaughter of SS. Walbert and. Represented with rats and mice; but this is supposed, by Cahier, to be a mistake for. While Adeltrude was a young girl, her aunt,, like a careful housewife, ordered all the scraps of wax to be gathered together and melted into one mass in a pot. It was allowed to get too hot, ran over the edge into the