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270 over the swelling, which instantly disappeared, only a small mark of a cross remaining on the place as long as Macrina lived.

R.M. Baillet, Vies. Mrs. Jameson, Sacred and Legendary Art. '''Ven. Emily''' (2), Sept. 19, 1787-1852. Founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy family.

Marie Emilie Guillemet de Bodat was born of noble family, at the château of Druelle, near Rodez. She spent her youth in practices of charity and pious mortification. At one time she was entrusted with the duty of preparing young girls, at Villefranche, for their first communion. She took the deepest interest in their spiritual progress, and never recommended them any penance without first performing it herself.

She was rewarded for her searchings after God, and for her unselfish kindness to others, by finding her vocation at the age of twenty-seven.

One day she heard some poor women lamenting that their daughters were growing up without religious instruction. They said that in their youth, before the revolution, they had been taught gratuitously by the Ursuline nuns; but now there was no help of that sort. Emily, with the help of other good women, soon opened a school for poor girls, on a very small and unpretending scale. They were laughed at, jeered at, stoned; but the clergy approved the good work, and encouraged Emily and her companions to make a solemn religious profession, vowing themselves to the service of God and the poor.

Before her death, her Congregation had twenty-five cloistered houses, and thirty-two schools, in which over five thousand children wore being taught; and other good works were prospering in the hands of these devoted women. In 1872, twenty years after Emily's death, Pius IX. signed the commission for the introduction of the cause of her beatification. The cause may be thrown out or suffered to drop; but, once introduced, the servant of God is for ever entitled to be called "Venerable." Guérin, P.B. St. Emma (l), or, (4), sister of , , and. St. Emma (2),. St. Emmelia, or, (1). St. Emmerentiana,. St. Emmia,. St. Emraïla, or, June 9, M. in Ethiopia. Guérin.  B. Emvvra, Dec. 17. Companion of. Gynecæum. St. Enathas,. St. Encletia, or, (3). St. Encratis,. St. Enfail, daughter of Brychan. Perhaps lived at Merthyr, near Carmarthen. Rees. (See .) St. Enfleda,. St. Engratia (l) of Saragossa, April 16, 18, 20 (,, ; in French, , , or ), V. M. 303. Patron of Braga. As Ste. Grace, or Grasse, she is patron of an abbacy in the diocese of Oleron.

One St. Engratia is represented nailed through the forehead to a gibbet.

Engratia of Saragossa is said to have been torn to pieces alive, and then kept in prison until she died of her wounds. She is mentioned in the Roman and Spanish Martyrologies; by Molanus and Galesinus; in one of the hymns of Prudentius, and in the Breviary of Saragossa, published in 1575.

In the 14th century a church was built at Saragossa in honour of the innumerable Martyrs of Saragossa, whose bones were found in a great mass, and who are commemorated Nov. 3; eighteen of them are specially honoured with Engratia, who is supposed to be one of them. This church was afterwards called by the name of St. Engratia. Engratia and her eighteen companions are sometimes claimed for Portugal, but without sufficient authority.

Henschenius, in AA.SS. Baillet, Vies. Cahier. Chatelain, Vocabulaire. St. Engratia (2) of Segovia, Oct. 25 (,, or in French), 715.

Representation: see (1).

Sister of SS. Fructus and Valentine. They gave all their goods to the poor, and went to a wild waste where now