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328 :{28 ST. FRINA and Cecilia. Immediately her perse- cutor was stmck blind, and she was on- molested. She restored sight to her enemy on his repentance. She retnmed to Chdbrd, and there collected ronnd her a number of Saxon maidens, OTcr whom she presided in great holiness until her death in 735. Many miracles are told of her in her life, and after her death. One of the former is that a leper conjured her in the name of Christ to kiss him, and she, oYcrcoming her fear of infection and natural disgust at his loathsome con- ilition, made the sign of the cross and Idssed him. Immediately the scales fell from him, and his flesh came again like that of a child. Multitudes of pilgrims resorted to her tomb, the chapel on the site of the pigs' hut, and the fountain which had sprung up at her prayer, and which soon became famous for miraculous cures. In 1180 her body was solemnly taken up from the obscure part of the church where it was buried, and translated to the chief place in the church, in presence of a great concourse of nobles, prelates, and people. For centuries no king of England would enter Oxford for fear of being struck blind. Henry III. was the first to disregard the tradition, and there were not wanting persons who attributed all his misfortunes to his presumption. Many kings, however, gave munificent offerings to the churches and schools of Oxford. The first school known with certainty to have existed in the sanctuary of St. Frideswide has become one of the most famous centres of literary and in- tellectual life in the world. Her monas- tery is the College of Christ Church, the chief college of Oxford, and her church, rebuilt in the 12th century, is the cathedral. One version of her story says that she lived, died, and was buried at Thombury, now Binsey, and that her body was trans- lated thence to Oxford in the 1 2th cen- tury. At Bomy, near Therouanne, in Artois, there is a tradition that she fled thither from the pursuit of Algar, and a fountain, said to have sprung up at her desire, is resorted to for cures and other answers to prayer. Notwithstanding these discrepancies in the accounts, and the fu^t that Bede, who was living during her reputed period, does not mention her, critics agree that her story is true in the main. BM Smith and Waoe. AA.SS. Mabillon, Montalembert, Baillet, Butler, and every collection of English saints. St Frina, May 5, V. Misprint for Herika, or Irene (1), a martyr famous in the East. Some relics were at Aletii, or Lupii, or Lucienta, in Calabria, in a church called Santa Maria di Luce, be- cause the image of the B. V. I^Iary was surrounded with lamps. This Irene has been thought to be another martyr at this place, but it is not so; it is only worship and relics of the Eastern virgin martyr. AA.SS. Appendix to Irene, May 5. St Frinseca, or Frinbbcha, Fof- BECHA. Ste. Frique. In Guienne, St. Efri- que, a man, is corrupted into Ste. Frique. Chastelain, Voc, Hag., in Menage's Dictionary. St Fritheswoed, FRroEswroE. St. Frithesw3rtha, Frideswide. St Frodoberta, April 2 (Flobarde, Flobbrbe, Floberde), V. Lived at Amilly (Ameliacum) in Brie, in the 8th century. Cahier. Gu6rin. St Froila, Fronilde. Mas Latrie. St. Fronilde, or Froila. 12th cen- tury. In 1175, the venerable reformer. Countess Donna Fronilde, presented the monastery of Ferreyra to that of Meyra (both in the diocese of Lugo, in Gralicia, Spain), thereby placing it under the authority of the Abbot Vidal, and sub- jecting it to the Cistercian rule, which had just been introduced into Spain, and had already acquired a great reputation for sanctity. Having secured the promise of other members of her family that the property should never be claimed again by them or their heirs, but regarded as given to Gk>d and the Cistercians for ever, she gave a handsome donation to the House of Ferreyra, and to all the nuns who chose to go over to the Cistercian Order. Her daughter. Donna Guiomar, confirmed the gift on condition that she