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Rh Represented hanging by her hands, which are fastened to rings in the wall, while executioners on each side of her hold lamps close to her body to burn her.

Her offence was that she comforted the Christians who were suffering for the cause of Christ. Under the rule of Apellianus, she was seized, tortured, hung up, and scorched with the flame of lamps or torches, to compel her to deny Christ; but in vain. She was thrown into prison, and brought out again the next day. She mocked at Apellianus and his idols, and was beheaded, and so departed to her Lord, in whom she trusted.

R.M., Oct. 30. AA.SS. May 25, from the Menology of Basil and Synaxary of Dijon. St. Eutropia (3), June 15, V. M. A girl of twelve, martyred at Palmyra, in Syria, with her mother, whose name we do not know. She was condemned to be shot with arrows. The judge, pitying her youth, ordered her bonds to be undone, that she might save herself by flight; but her mother said, "Do not flee, my daughter." Eutropia held her own hands tight behind her, and fell to the ground, transfixed by an arrow, and immediately expired, not haying disobeyed her mother even in this. She is mentioned in Bryene's Exhortation to. R. M. St. Eutropia (4), one of the servants of of Augsburg. St. Eutropia (5), Dec. 14, V. M. 5th century. Sister of St. Nicasius, bishop of Rheims.

When Attila, at the head of the Huns, invaded Roman territory and entered Gaul, shortly before his great defeat at Chalons, in 451, all sorts of atrocities were committed by his followers. He took Metz on Easter Eve, April 7. Bishops were taken prisoners, priests were slain at the altar, people were massacred with fire and sword. The invaders proceeded to Rheims. Most of the inhabitants fled to the woods; but Nicasius, in full canonicals, attended by the clergy and a few of the people, stood in his place before the altar. He was singing the psalms for the hour. A sword at his throat cut short the words. His sister Eutropia, for fear of falling alive into the hands of the soldiers, struck the murderer in the face, and was instantly despatched by the side of her brother. They were both buried beside the church of St. Agricola, afterwards the abbey of St. Nicasius.

The Acts of St. Nicasius are ancient, but not authentic. By some accounts the massacre occurred in the 3rd century.

R.M. Butler, Lives. Ruinart, ''Pers. Vandal. Revue des deux Mondes,'' March, 1852, p. 939. St. Eutropia (6) of Clermont, in Auvergne, Sept. 15, 26, 5th century. Widow, contemporary of (5), of Rheims. Fed upon mortifications, that she might give all to the poor. After the death of her son and grandson, she had a quarrel with Agrippiuus, a priest, father of her daughter-in-law, about her property. She put the whole affair into the hands of the two bishops, showing neither hatred nor covetousness.

St. Sidonins Apollinarius, bishop of Auvergne, called her "Saint" during her life in writing of her to a bishop of Autun.

R.M. Sept. 15. F.M., Sept. 26. Baillet. St. Eutropia (7),. St. Eutycnia (l). (See .) St. Eutychia (2), M. with, , and. St. Euvronia,. St. Euxima, or, Jan. 30. St. Eva (1), or, Sept 6, V. M. Patron of Dreux. Her body lies in the church of St. Stephen there. Guérin. Stadler. St. Eva (2), Feb. 11, Aug. 30 (, erroneously called ), M. c. 303. AA.SS. (See .) St. Eva (3). Perhaps the real name of, who was also called. St. Eva (4), or. The Memorial makes her identical with, third abbess of St. Peter's, Gloucester, in succession to her sisters, SS and. Smith and Wace give Eva as a legendary personage called fourth abbess, and, like Edburga, widow of