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314 314 ST. FEIDELMAI oommemorated with St. Socrates. Grmco- Slav. Martyrology. St. Feidelmai. (See Ethnea and Fedelmia.) St. Felicia (l), in some places called Feue, Oct. 20. 3rd century. Mother of St Just (Oct. 18), a child of nine years, who went with Justin his father, from Autun where they lived, to Amiens, to redeem his uncle Justinian from slavery. On the way back they were pursued* by the servants of a Boman general who hated the Christians, and Just was beheaded in 287. Felicia praised Gk)d that her son was numbered among the martyrs, and prayed to St. Just to remember her before God. The Bol- landists give two versions of the legend of St. Just, whose worship is very ancient; but they do not appear to consider that of St. Felicia established on good authority. AA,SS,, Prmter, St. Felicia {2 May 10, M. at Tarsus, in Cilicia. AA.SS St Felicia (3), April 26, M. in Africa. AA.SS, St. Felicia (4), May 7, M. in Africa. AA SS St. Felicia (5), April 12, M. AA,SS. St. Felicia (6), April 27, M. at Nicomedia, in Bithynia. AA.SS. St. Felicia (7), June 2. One of 227 martyrs commemorated together this day in St Jerome's Martyrology, AA.S8, St. Felicia (8) Modica, March 29, Y. M., went from Seville to Borne, and was there martyred for Christianity and virginity. AA,SS,f from Lahire, Prseter. St. Felicia (9), May 8, M. at Con- stantinople with St. Acacius. (See Agatha (2).) AA.SS. St. Felicia (10), June 1, M. with St. Aucega. AA.SS. B. Felicia (ll)» of Meda, Sept. 30 (Felice, Feux, Felduna). 1378-1444. V. Abbess of the Order of St. Clara. Beputed founder of the Franciscan con- vent of Corpus Christi at Pesaro. Bom at Meda, or at Milan, of a noble family of Milan. Her parents died when she was just grown up. She and her brother and sister gave all their goods to the poor and took the habit and vows of the Order of St. Francis. Felicia and her sister entered the convent of St. Ubsula, at MUan. Four years later the sister died. Twenty-five years after her pro- fession Felicia was elected abbess. Her sanctity was so well known that Battista Montefeltrio, wife of Craleazzo Malatesta, lord of Pesaro, and her daughter Elisa- beth — who were building a convent in honour of the body of Christ, at Pesaro — in 1439 begged St. Bernardino of Siena nilay 20) to procure the services of Felicia to establish it. She went there, and ruled it with great success for four years. During that time she effected, by her prayers, the cure of the said !^isabeth, who — after the death of her husband, Pietro Gentili Yarani, prince of Camertum — took the veil, and died at Urbino, about 1477 (July 22), and is considered a saint. Battista also became a nun. Felicia died at Pesaro, aged forty-six. BB. Serapika Colonna and Fbancesca da Fano were among her nuns. Perier, in AA.SS. Jacobilli, Sanii di FolignoA L^n, Aureole S^ror phigue. B. Felicia (12), Dec. 20. +1439. V. Abbess, O.S.F., born at Verona. Sent from a Franciscan convent at Mantua, to Treviso, to reform the convent of Cella. After two years she was transferred to that of St. Nicholas de Mariano, at Venice, by order of Pope Eugenins IV., in order ito establish the Order of St. Clara there, and send to other places the Benedictine nuns who were then in possession of it. This she happily accom- plished. Oyri^cseum. St. Feliciana, June 20, M. at Tomi in Bulgaria, on the western shore of the Black Sea, the place to which Ovid was banished, and which enriched the early Church with many martyrs. AA.SS. St. Felicissima (l), April 26, M. in Africa. AA.SS. St. Felicissima (2), May 5, M. in Africa. AA,SS. St. Felicissima (3), June 2. One of 227 Boman martyrs commemorated in the Martyrology of St. Jerome on this day. AA.SS. St. Felicissima (4), Aug. 12. c. 310. V. M. probably in the reign of Gralerius Maximianus. Taken by her mother, Fortunata, to St. Gracilian in