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355 ST. GUDDENT 355 St. Gregoria (2), Jan. 23, V. 6th century. Her contemporary, St. Gregory the Great, who was born about 540, Pope 590-604, gives her testimony as his authority for his Life of St. Isaac, abbot of Spoleto (+ c, 550), which is in the collections of Mabillon, BoUandus, Surius, etc., April 11. In her youth, Gregoria was going to be married, but preferring a religious life, she fled to the Church, and claimed the protection of the venerable abbot. She was after- wards a nuu at St. Mary's in Borne. St. Gresinda. Supposed same as Glossine. Guerin. St. Grimonia, or Germana, Sept. 7, April 29, V. M. of chastity. Re- cluse in Picardy. Irish. Martyred in her own defence. A chapel having been built on the spot, a town grew up round it, called from its origin, '^Ghapelle." This is the saint worshipped with St. Pboba (3), but it appears uncertain whether they were companions in life, or only their relics united and worshipped together. Butler calls them fellow- martyrs. AA,SS, Butler. Stadler. Grita. Margaret is so called in ^)alecarlia St Guda (1), Feb. 15 (GoDA, GoTHA, Gytha, Juta, Jutta). 4- 1055. Queen of Denmark. Princess of Sweden. Wife of Svend, or Sueno Estridson, king of Denmark, 1047-1076. In 1057, when King Svend had three kingdoms, Den- mark, Norway, and England, and when everything was going well, with him, he forgot the Eong of kings and manied his cousin-german from Sweden. Mas Latrie calls her Juta, and says she was the stepdaughter of his first wife. Whether that was the relationship objected to by the clergy, or that the king and queen were actually cousins, Adalbert, bishop of Bremen, denounced the marriage as unlawful, and ordered the couple to separate. At first Svend was very angry, and threatened to burn and lay waste the whole town and territory of Hamburg, but the bishop remained firm, and the king at last consented to divorce his wife. She spent the rest of her life in penance for the sin she had ignorantly committed. She built a monastery in Westrogothia, called from her name, Gudheim, and there she lived in the practise of hospitality, charity, and industry. She and her nuns worked magnificent em- broidery for churches. In her time a mission was sent from Bremen to christianize Sweden. The missionaries were very badly received, persecuted, and driven out of ihe country. Guda enter- tained them in her monastery, and sent them safely back to Bremen. Meantime Svend, having bowed to the teaching of the Church on one point, immediately took to himself a great many concubines, one of whom, named Thora, jealous of the great veneration in which Guda was held, had her poisoned. Guda was buried in her own monastery. Svend sent for Magnus, the only child of Thora, to be crowned, but he died on the way. Svend had ten natural children, most of whom became kings and queens. Five of his sons were successively kings of Denmark. Yastovius, Viiis AquiUmtn, Langebek, Scriptores Danicarum, Mas Latrie. This Guda is probably the same as GoDA. B. Guda (2), or GuTA de Bonne- church, Aug. 17. 1 2th century. Wife of B. Louis, count of Amestein. Founder, in 1139, and first abbess of a nunnery of the PrsBmonstratensian Order not far from Coblentz. Migne, Die. des Ahhayes. Le Paige, Bibliotheea Praemons. Ord, Helyot, Ordres MonastiqueSy ii. 20. AA.SS., Prmier. B. Guda ^3), or JuTTA, March 19, V. Companion or St. Elizabeth of Thurin- oiA. -f- 1252, with many proofs of sanctity. Her worship is not authorized, but she is called Sancta Virgo by Trithemius, in his Chronico Hiraaugiensi ; and called Beata by Monstier. The Bollandists will have more to say about her in the Life of St. Elizabeth, Nov. 1 9. St* Guda (4), June 28. Lay-sister at Hobenes, in Germany. Henriquez, Lilia. St. Guddena, or Gondbine, July 18, Y. M. at Carthage, at the end of the 2nd century. Probably same as Gau- DENTiA (1). Tillemont. Mas Latrie. Cahier. St. Guddent, June 27 (Guddbns, Gxtddone). St. Augustine preached in