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378 378 ST. HEMMA Conntess and Landgravine of Carinthia, etc. Founder of the double monastery of Gurk, in Carinthia, which seems to have been of the Order of St. Augustine. She is said, in the Life given in the AA.SS,, to have been a near relation of the Emperor St. Henry I., but that Life is far from contemporary, and Papebrooh regards it as by no means certain that Hemma, the founder of Gurk, and Hemma, the niece of the emperor, are the same. Her father was Count of Murtzall and Lord of Eppenstein. Y^en she was grown up, she was sent to the court of St. Cunigund, the empress; and on her marriage with the Landgravo William, lord of Friesach and Celt- schach, in Carinthia and Styria, SS. Henry and Cunigund gave her several towns and castles as a dowry. She had two sons, William and Hartwick, who were murdered in one day, in revenge for the severity with which they, ruling in their father's name, strove to put down lawlessness and immorality in his dominions. The Landgrave William, instead of taking a cruel vengeance on all who were concerned in the outrage, only condemned the chief conspirator to death, and pardoned the others. Then, with the consent of his wife, although far advanced in life, he made a pilgrim- age on foot and unattended, to Rome, to visit the scene of the martyrdom of St. Paul. On his way home, he die^ at Lavanthal ; and Hemma took the veil at Gurk, in the monastery she had built for twenty monks and seventy-two nuns. In 1120 the nunnery was suppressed and the monastery given to canons regular to serve the cathedral at Gurk. William and Hemma were both honoured as saints in Carinthia. AASS, Butler. St. Hemma (4), June 29, widow. An abbess near Batisbon, who, in 1067, hos- pitably entertained the learned Irish monk Marianus, with other pilgrims, on their way to Bome. He, however, in obedience to a vision, remained at Batis- bon while the others continued their journey ; whereupon Hemma made over to him the church of St. Peter. The Emperor Henry IV. confirmed the grant, and Marianus built a monastery there. Butler. Lanigan. B. Henedina, May 14, V. M. with JusTA and Justina in Sardinia. {See JUSTA.) B,M, St. Heraclea, or Abaclea, Sept. 29. Place or person. First of a list of names of MM. in Thrace. AA^S. Called in the Martvrdogy of Salisbury, " The Holy Woman St. Ercley." St. Heraclia (l), Sept. 12 ; Sept. i:] in the Coptic Church. M. in Asia. AA.SS, St. Heraclia (2), June l, M. at Bome. AA.SS. St. Herais (i), Rhais (i). St. Herais (2) March 4 (^Ebais, HbroId, Herois), M. Commemorated as put to the sword with 150 others in an old Greek Calendar (Synaxary) of Crypta Ferrata and in some other Martyrologies. AA.SS. Perhaps the same as Irais. St. Herais (3), Ibais. St. Hercantrudis, May U, Dec. 7. + 655. A girl, of noble birth, who entered the monastery of Brie as a lay- sister, under St. Far a, at a very early age, and was so carefully brought up by the nuns that she never knew ^ere were two sexes. She was grievously tried with bodily pain, and was covered with sores like Job, but bore her sufferings with his patience. When she was at ^e point of death, she told the nuns to make haste and expel from amongst them one who was dead, and did not deserve to live with them. They were all puzzled and anxious, and one, struck with terror, threw herself on the ground and con- fessed that she was the dead one, as her heart was in the outer world and she desired to return to it ; she promised to amend herself. It was now night, and the dying saint lay in her dark cell. She requested them to put the light out. They said, « What light ? " She declared her cell was lighted up with a brightness she could not look upon. AA.SS. 0^.B, Bucelinus. St. Heredina, or Herectina. (See St. Victoria (2).) St. Herembertha, Bertanna. St. Heremita, March 13, M. The name of a saint whose relics were shown to the Bollandist fathers at the Monastery of St. Anthony, in the diocese of Yienne,