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392 892 ST. HILTRUDE out of her retreat, and took the veil from the hands of Thoodoric, bishop of Cam- bray. Her parents gave her an estate from Molhain to Yeaux for her life, and after her death it was to go to the Church of St. Lambert. She lived for some years in a cell adjoining the monastery of Liessies, where she and the young women who joined her were under the guidance of her brother Guntard. She had an illness which at first seemed slight, but she grew ever weaker and thinner until her happy death. Hiltrude was wor- shipped certainly from the 11th to the 181^ century at Liessies TLsBtiis, in Hannonia). JS.Jtf. Perier, in AA,S&j from her Life, by a monk of Yalciodor, of the nth century. Baillet. St. Hiltrude (2) was a recluse to whom St. Cokdula appeared. Compare with Helimdrude. St. Hiltrude (3), Nov. 17, + 1177, y. of Bingen. Daughter of Megenhard, or Meginrad, count of Spanheim. Nun under St. Jutta, at Disibodenberg. Her holiness was made known by St. Hilde- GARD (3). She was one of the nuns who acted as amanuensis to St. Hildegard, and helped her to put her book Scivias into writing. Bucelinus. Lechner. Eckenstein. St. Himbert, Sept. 16, V. in Alsatia. Martin. B. Himmana, Imaine. SS. Hinna (l) and Hisca, com- memorated with St. Olympias, Dec. 17. AA.8S,, Prseter,, Feb. 24. St. Hinna (2), or Hymna, Feb. 1. A holy virgin who refused to take a quantity of money, saying it was too heavy to carry. She went home without it, and St. Brigid sent it after her by throwing it into the Shannon. The gold floated on the water until it arrived at the place where St. Hinna lived, and there she took it out, and gave thanks to God and St. Brigid. She is supposed by some writers to be the same as St. Cinna. Bollandus, in "St. Bridget" and "St. Kinia." AA.SS, St. Hippeas, Jan. 18, one of thirty- seven martyrs in Egypt AA,SS. St. Hippolyta, Jan. 25. (See Elvira.) St. Hirena or Herena, Irene. St Hirena, Feb. 28. ABoman martyr whose relics, with those of St. Eulaua and many others, were brought from Rome to Antwerp, and there wor- shipped with the authority and appro- bation of the archbishop. AA.SS. St. Hirenaeus, Herena. St. Hirmina, Irmina, of Treves. St. Hirnjrnhilda, Ermenilda, queen. St. Hirois, Herais. St. Hirundo or Herundines. (See Eomula.) St. HiBberga, V. Cousin of St Oswald, king of Northumberland, martyr. Her relics were in the Abbey of Berg St Winoc, in Flanders, and were burnt with the monastery, in 1383, by the French. Molanus confounds the English Hisberga with the Flemish St. Isberge. Butler, SL Wenoc, Nov. 6. St. Hisca, Feb. 24, with Hinna (1). St. Hixta or YxTA, daughter of St. NoTBURGA, and honoured with her. Hlotild, Clotilda. St Holda, HuLDAH. St. Hombeline, Humbelina. St. Homberge, Humberga. St. Honesta (l), May 8, M. at Constantinople with St. Acacius. (See Agatha (2).) AA.SS. St. Honesta (2), Oct ll, 18 (Cos- stantia, Onebta), v. M. Perhaps 8th century. There was once a king whose name was not written in the book of life, and therefore need not be mentioned here*. He lived in the country about Toulouse, and had two sons, Justus and Artemius, and one daughter, Honesta. They all became Christians without his knowledge, fled from their home, and, after much wandering, came to Monchel on the Canche, in the diocese of Amboise, where they lived several years. Their father sent men to find them, with orders to bring them back, and if they refused to come, to put them to death. They did refuse, and were killed. Christians of the Morini built a church in their honour. They are not mentioned in the oldest martyrologies, and their date is uncertain. AA.SS,, Prseter. B. Honofria, Feb. 28, April 22 (HoNOPHRiA, Onofria), V. M. One of the early Boman martyrs of whose life nothing is known. Her body and that